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.

A KNOWN drug user who was before a Cork court and facing a jail term packed a few essentials for the trip - parcels of heroin under his foreskin, and a mobile phone, a SIM card and a charger up his rectum.

Eighteen prison officers are in hospital after three separate incidents involving prisoners and staff in Irish jails.

A DEAL to reduce the €59 million prison overtime bill is still far from complete with less than two weeks to go to the agreement deadline.