RTE’s Prime Time programme tonight said it rejected Justice Minister Michael McDowell’s comments that its report on the Mountjoy Jail relocation site was grossly misleading and insisted that it stood over the accuracy and fairness of the coverage.

Residents battling to block a new €30m jail in north Dublin today took their campaign to the front page of a national paper.

Plans to revamp Spike Island jail in Cork cancel out the need for a controversial new €500m prison in north Co Dublin, it was claimed today.