There has been a surge in the number of prisoners put on protection for their own safety, with the sharpest rises in Mountjoy Prison and Cloverhill Remand Prison.

A man serving a sentence for a series of assaults has been handed a fresh sentence for attacking the Governor of Cloverhill Prison.

Prisoners in Irish jails have made almost 350 complaints of serious assault and intimidation under a new complaints procedure introduced by the Irish Prison Service introduced in November 2012.

Prison officers are set to conduct a second day of industrial action today at the country’s only dedicated remand prison in a dispute over health and safety.

JIM COLLINS jumps up out of his seat as soon as we enter the room.

A man who was facing a murder charge when he took his own life in a courthouse holding cell had instructed his solicitor to draw up his will, an inquest has heard.

A report into the death of a prisoner in Cloverhill courthouse in 2011 has found that organs of the prison system failed to communicate with each other, failed to adhere to standard work practices and didn't keep adequate records.

Two young Dublin men have been given sentences of seven and four and a half years for possessing a handgun in suspicious circumstances in a stolen car.

OVERCROWDING and the housing of inmates for the non-payment of fines are putting increasing strain on some of Ireland’s main prisons.

A jury has been discharged in a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court sex assault trial because one of its members has six previous convictions and six outstanding bench warrants.

The Irish Prison Service today hit out at a study which accused jails of making no effort to ensure inmates remain in contact with their families.

VISITING committees have released their annual reports for 2005 on Ireland’s prisons. Here are the main concerns expressed.

GARDAÍ and anti-globalisation groups last night blamed each other for the violent clashes which broke out in Dublin, marring the celebrations marking the historic accession of 10 countries to the EU.

PRISON officers are becoming increasingly confused by Justice Minister Michael McDowell’s jail reform plans and wish he would bring them up to speed on his proposals.