Kinahan cartel killer ‘Fat’ Freddie Thompson has been transferred to the Midlands Prison and is now in a single cell after a ...

PATRICK Ward, one of six hunger strikers moved from Portlaoise Prison to the Curragh Camp, was said last night to be “near death”. At the same time, another bid was made to end the protest.

In addition, the Irish Examiner has learned that the two high-security units in the country’s prisons — in Portlaoise Prison (eight spaces) and neighbouring Midlands Prison (five spaces ...

A woman tried to smuggle heroin into Portlaoise Prison in her underwear in an attempt to get money for a grave plaque. Rebecca Gaughran (34) of 64 The Square, Riverbank, Drogheda, Co Louth is accused ...

Dutch businessman Tiede Herrema was kidnapped by the IRA 50 years ago and his archive donated to University of Limerick in ...

TWO men charged in connection with the biggest-ever drug seizure in Laois have been remanded in custody for a further two ...

Three cousins who committed an assault against a fellow prisoner of the Midlands Prison have been given until the end of the current sitting of Portlaoise Circuit Court to pay compensation in order to ...

A judge declared he was “stunned” when he was notified that the defendant before him had “over 300” previous convictions, the first when he was just nine years old.

The latest figures from the Irish Prison Service show that 19 inmates in Limerick’s Mulgrave Street jail continue to slop out, as of this July, in addition to 41 prisoners in Portlaoise.

A VIOLENT inmate who stabbed a prison officer in the face said he did it to try and get out of overcrowded Mountjoy Prison, ...