Packed cells, prisoner attacks, broken toilets, and unsafe conditions have created a crisis in the country's prison system ...

TEN PRISONERS HAVE been taken to hospital in a serious condition after they apparently overdosed on an opioid in Portlaoise prison, The Journal has learned. A source has said it is a “fluid ...

Nathan McDonnell's solicitor tells us he is being 'pragmatic' about his situation and is looking forward to his release.

Prison officer Brian Stack was murdered at the height of the Troubles. The State has never apologised for the failures in ...

Brian Stack was just one of many victims of IRA assassination squads. But as chief prison officer at Portlaoise Prison, there ...

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has plans to invest an estimated €600,000 of the public's money in new dogs for jails in Portlaoise and elsewhere.

Devon Hennessy is one of five people on remand in the jail after being charged with falsely imprisoning a man at a property ...

Convicted drugs trafficker Nathan McDonnell remains under threat from Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and, for his own safety, is set to remain on the same landing of Portlaoise Prison where he was ...

Discussions are being held to try to secure a ceasefire from the largest dissident republican group, the New IRA, it has emerged. The Irish Examiner has been told by several sources that ...

The son of a Portlaoise prison officer shot dead by the IRA has launched a new book in memory of his father. Brian Stack was left paralysed and brain-damaged after being shot in March 1983 as he ...

The Col James Fitzmaurice Commemorative Society annual wreath-laying commemorative event to mark the 96th anniversary of one ...