THIS is the moment a drone is used to drop a flaming fireball into Mountjoy Prison in a bid to smuggle drugs to inmates.

across the Irish Sea four Irish men were escaping from a Welsh prison: Frank Shouldice, Joe McGrath, George Geraghty and Barney Mellows. Shouldice, a veteran of the 1916 Rising, was arrested in ...

Building at Barlinnie continued throughout the late 19th century, and the prison continued to expand in the 20th and 21st centuries with a number of alterations and modernisations. Significantly ...

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 ...

Women who underwent cervical screening in Limerick’s female prison had to be accompanied by two to three guards up to last year, leading to a low take up, it emerged today.

The training would be a a mixture of classroom and scenario-based training within the existing prison buildings ... where ...

Former US senator Bob Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Wednesday for accepting bribes of cash and gold bars ...

The Labour Court has rejected a claim by a director of the Irish Prison Service (IPS) that he was discriminated against on the basis of age because he was paid some €32,000 a year less than ...

The prison buildings are undergoing earthquake-resistance upgrades, while the interior is remodeled into a hotel. “This fall will be the last chance to see its original shape, including the ...

Concern is growing for a man from the Republic of Ireland who is on hunger and water strike in an Iranian prison. Bernard Phelan ... told The Irish Times she now fears for her brother's life.

A car has been found burnt out after being used to ram a prison van in County Monaghan on Wednesday. Gardaí (Irish police) said the incident happened on the N2 near Clontibret at about 18:45.

Our exclusive pictures show menacing monster Murray (53), who recently phoned in hoax bomb threats from prison against Minister for Justice Helen McEntee and Government Buildings - being escorted ...