Firefighters are carrying out "regular site visits" to blocks of flats in the west end of Glasgow over fears about material used on the buildings.

John Cuffe recalls the day he woke up and saw Cork harbour ablaze. His new memoir of being a prison officer includes a look at the riot on Spike Island. He tells Donal O’Keeffe.

A jury at an inquest into the death of a prisoner at Mountjoy has recommended that refusals of treatment be overseen by staff with a medical background.

The teenager charged with murdering Melanie McCarthy McNamara was a protected prisoner when he allegedly wrote a letter containing the phrase: "Two in the head. The bitch is dead".

Nine out of ten fatal fires in the Republic last year occurred in homes which did not have working smoke alarms, it was revealed today.

Convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan smiled and said: "Keep it clean" after he was jailed for five years by the Special Criminal Court today for threatening to kill two prison officers and their families.

Convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan was found guilty by the Special Criminal Court today of threatening that two prison officers at Portlaoise prison would be killed, but he was cleared of assaulting one of the officers.

A prison officer denied at the Special Criminal Court today that he had pushed convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan and used abusive language during an incident at Portlaoise Prison last year.

A jury has heard that a prisoner whose jaw was allegedly broken by a prison officer feared he was going to die after he was left naked, covered in blood in a padded cell for 30 minutes.