The Prison Officers’ Association has regularly raised the looming overcrowding crisis, telling the Irish Examiner in March 2024 that it was a “ticking timebomb”. When numbers passed the ...

More info Weekly ‘firebomb’ drone drops into a Dublin prison yard have been “stopped overnight” thanks to a new state-of-the-art wire mesh. The Irish Mirror has learned that the Irish ...

Prison sources have told the Irish Examiner they are worried that, if this trend continues in the next court term, after Easter, that the custody figure could approach 6,000. It was only last June ...

The figures, provided by the Irish Prison Service, reflect the number of incarcerated people each year who are not visited by family and friends. Saoirse Brady, executive director of the Irish ...

Two prison officers who were seriously injured as they were stabbed by Manchester bomb plotter Hashem Abedi are in a stable condition in hospital, the Prison Officers’ Association (POA ...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is “appalled” by an attack on three prison officers at the weekend and the government will urgently investigate what happened, his official spokesman has said.

Nearly 18,000 prisoners in Ireland were recorded as not receiving any visits over the past six years, according to new ...

Streaming platform Netflix is to release a documentary on the 2015 killing of Irish man Jason Corbett in the United States.

Amanda Knox was stopped by law enforcement at the airport, where officials seemed more curious about her past than her passport.

Irish farmer who killed neighbour with teleporter prongs comes home from prison to over £500,000 in shares Farmer in crow-banger manslaughter case has €600,000 Kerry Group shares waiting for ...

Lawyers for a wrongfully deported Maryland man will be allowed to depose Trump administration officials to determine whether ...