At the height of the Troubles in the early 1980s Ian Bownes, a young trainee psychiatrist in Northern Ireland, was sent into the notorious H blocks in Belfast’s Maze prison to assess if its ...

In the mornings, Ian Kilroy goes downstairs at 7am to switch on his computer in the livingroom to sit online with others from Dublin Zen Centre. “I offer incense. I do my vows and then I sit ...