In response to a parliamentary question from Fine Gael TD Barry Ward, Minister O’Callaghan stated: "The Irish Prison Service must accept into custody all people committed to prison by the Courts.” ...

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 ...

State paid €29m for Thornton Hall site, now worth just €6.5m Thornton Hall prison site in North County Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren The Irish Prison Service has spent more than €114,000 over ...

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 ...