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

TEN PRISONERS HAVE been taken to hospital in a serious condition after they apparently overdosed on an opioid in Portlaoise ...

Prison bosses have asked ‘Breaking Bad’ businessman Nathan McDonnell for help with a proposal to turn an old jail block into ...

Seeking political prisoner status, IRA prisoners in Portlaoise Prison embarked on riots and then hunger strikes which were ...

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 ...

THE dangerous inmate who sliced a highly-regarded prison officer in a shocking attack has been transferred to Ireland’s ...

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 ...

Portlaoise Prison has housed many paramalitaries down the years. Former INLA man Dessie O'Hare, who was known as "The Border ...

A SOLICITOR asked Judge Susan Fay to make an order allowing a forensic scientist into the Midlands Prison to investigate the ...

A YOUNG Laois man is to be sentenced next month for the robbery of a car which subsequently crashed after being driven at ...