On the day Dáil Eireann assembled for the first time in 1919, across the Irish Sea four Irish men were escaping from a Welsh prison ... Twenty-eight-year-old Joe McGrath and Herbert Mellows ...

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) is expected to spend at least €16 million on 30 “modular” apartment-style cells designed to help ease long-serving prisoners back into society. The “rooms ...