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Wed 04 Apr 2007Memorial to Maze hunger striker allowed to remainA memorial in Lanesboro, Co Longford, built without planning permission to commemorate one of the Maze Prison hunger strikers who died in 1981, can stay in place, An Bord Pleanála has ruled.The memorial, consisting of a semi-circular stone boundary wall with five flagpoles and an upstanding black marble slab inscribed with the name of Martin Hurson, had been erected by the local Sinn Féin organisation.