Brothers John and Desmond Dundon, both serving life sentences for murder, have mounted a legal challenge to being held in the segregation unit at the maximum security prison at Portlaoise.

Limerick man John Dundon has gone on hunger strike in prison as he fears an attempt to poison him.

A 17-year-old boy punched a garda because he was “under pressure” after eloping with and marrying a girl against her parents' wishes, a court has heard.