A prison officer planted a note of personal details about a governor in the North in the cell of a dissident republican suspect, the ombudsman said.

A prison officer planted a note of personal details about a governor in the North in the cell of a dissident republican suspect, the ombudsman said tonight.

The governor of the North's main high security prison has resigned less than five months after taking up the post.

Prison authorities in the North have launched an investigation after bomb-making parts were found during the search of a high-security jail.

A major investigation has begun today at a high security prison today after the second suicide of an inmate in more than a year.