TO the damning prison reports straining the shelves at Prison Service HQ, comes another four-volume dossier. Totalling almost 800 pages, the reports of the Commission of Investigation into the death of Gary Douch make for grim reading.

The report of a seven-year inquiry into the savage death of a prisoner, which has been dogged by delays and obstacles, will be sent to Justice Minister Alan Shatter by the end of the year.

Seven years on from one of the most savage killings in Irish prisons, we still have no answers.

It is a damning comment on Ireland’s system of justice that an inquiry which began into a savage killing at Mountjoy Prison seven years ago is only now nearing completion.

A mentally ill man has been sentenced to life in prison at the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of his Mountjoy prison cellmate.

THE savage murder of Gary Douch, who was kicked, strangled and beaten to death in his Mountjoy prison cell, is to be probed by a commission of investigation.

A teacher, described as a "determined paedophile", who indecently assaulted nine boys he taught at a Sligo primary school has been jailed for 12 years by Judge Michael White.

A teacher has been found guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of indecently assaulting nine boys he taught at a Sligo primary school between 1966 and 1984.

A primary school teacher used to brazenly abuse a pupil in front of his class, a court heard today.

A Limerick man who is a member of Republican Sinn Féin denied under oath at the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today that he was a member of the Continuity IRA.

A man who slashed his girlfriend's teenage sister with a 'Stanley' knife in a savage and frenzied attack has been given a two-year sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The Special Criminal Court has reserved judgment in the trial of seven men suspected of membership of the dissident republican organisation, the Continuity IRA.

A garda witness in the trial of seven men suspected of membership of the Continuity IRA today denied kicking and punching one of the accused during the course of arrest.

A garda sergeant today denied that he "whitewashed" custody records on seven men who were detained after gardaí raided a suspected Continuity IRA meeting at a house in Limerick.

A detective garda who took part in a raid on a house in Limerick where a suspected Continuity IRA was taking place, today denied that gardai "hassled" members of Republican Sinn Fein.