We the Board of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, Ireland’s leading penal reform NGO, write to express our serious and collective concern in respect to s.55 Charities Act 2009.

JUSTICE Minister Dermot Ahern’s blase attitude to “doubling up” in prison cells shows a significant reversal in policy aspirations.

A Dublin man accused of fatally stabbing a young father in a street brawl has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter at the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin man kissed his baby son on the head minutes before he was stabbed to death in a Tallaght street brawl, a murder trial at the Central Criminal Court heard today.

MORE than half of the country’s prisoners have difficulty reading and are barely able to write their name and address, a study has found.