The rise in disorder comes after a prison officer in Mountjoy was slashed across the face by a prisoner on February 1 ...

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

While there were 5,101 people in prisons across the country on February 6, there were 11 per cent fewer beds (546) ...

IRA wing in Portlaoise high-security prison is closed for good marking the end of an era and leaving a handful of dissident prisoners with no more privileges or empty cells to call their own.

The court heard Morrissey’s previous convictions include assaults, drug dealing, criminal damage, theft and public order ...

Sean Maloney, 20 Ballywaltrim Heights, Killarney Road, Bray pleaded guilty to possessing drugs for his own use and for sale ...

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

The Irish Mirror can reveal that prison bosses have moved highly volatile prisoner Benjamin Morrissey - who has almost 80 ...

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

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