Revolutionary, diplomat, humanitarian, poet, traitor, nationalist, homosexual, rebel — just some of the terms used to describe the complex figure that was Roger Casement.

Plans to drastically cut legal aid for convicted criminals will destroy prison law, a Catholic agency has warned.

Irish emigrants are more at risk of going to prison in Britain due to the advent of tough sentencing policies, it was claimed today.

Many of the estimated 900 Irish prisoners in UK jails suffer discrimination and endure lives of quiet desperation, it was claimed today.

CLAIMS that the suicides of seven Irish prisoners in Britain are linked to a revenge campaign by former Northern Ireland soldiers-turned-warders are under investigation.