The Prison Service is to respond to the High Court shortly explaining how a high-profile gangland inmate was able to brandish an object he claimed was a mobile phone before judges at the high-security Special Criminal Court.

The prospects are good for a start-up firm that has the technology to provide the media with instant access to brand images.

JUSTICE Minister Alan Shatter has described as “unacceptable” the treatment of female inmates in two cases highlighted in a recent inspection report on Dochas Women’s Prison.

PRISON inspectors claim a female inmate has suffered a “serious violation of her human rights” and that other women in Dochas Prison were subjected to “unnecessary humiliation” by being ordered to strip naked in front of male staff for an internal body scan.

A new Irish website is offering customers the chance to save ‘scents’ this Valentine’s day.

A developer has agreed to change the name of a construction project after a word from Bruce Springsteen.

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Department store group House of Fraser said today it saw no reason to scale back forecasts in the wake of the US terrorist crisis.