THERE is something rotten in our prison service. This week mobile phone pictures were published of murderer Charlotte Mulhall — one of the infamous Scissors Sisters — jokingly holding a carving knife to the throat of drug offender Denis Gibney in Mountjoy.

A 37-year-old man who had more than 9,000 Ecstasy tablets valued at €135,000 has been jailed for seven years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.