The Irish Prison Service has spent more than €114,000 over the past three years on an empty site bought more than 20 years ...

Bills for the site continue to mount, with the Irish Prison Service spending around €40,000 a year on its upkeep.

An OPW valuation team concluded the price of the site was “grossly excessive”.Other bills included maintenance costs of around €27,000 “to repair boundary and perimeter security and for planned ...

Extra vigilance is now being taken within the prison and information for prisoners around the dangers of consuming contraband ...

Amer Matar, who fled Syria in 2011, runs an online archive that helps people to search for information about their loved ones ...

FAT’ Freddie Thompson’s chances of reuniting with his son behind bars is “slim to none”, senior sources have revealed. Brad ...

Natasha O'Brien says her faith in the justice system has been restored after her attacker Cathal Crotty was handed prison ...

A Prison Service spokesperson told the Sunday World: “The Irish Prison Service is committed to preventing the access of contraband into prisons and continues to be a high priority for the Irish ...

Caron McCaffrey also serves as President of EuroPris, the European Organisation of Prison and Correctional Services ...

Picture: Moya Nolan Irish Prison Service (IPS) figures show there are 5,041 prisoners for 4,543 spaces across the country — with Limerick Female Prison at 152% capacity, followed by Dochas Women ...

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 ...

This is understood to be the first time a flaming package has been caught on camera - and the footage is now being examined by bosses at the Irish Prison Service. Sources say it is suspected this ...