Garrett Smith, with an address at St Fiacc's Terrace, Graigcullen, Co Carlow appeared before a special sitting of Kilkenny District Court this afternoon.

The drugs were found with the assistance of detector dog Blue when Revenue officers stopped and searched the luggage of a 28-year-old man from Northern Ireland.

A man in his 50s has been charged with the murder of another man in Cloverhill Prison at the weekend.

A speedy response by gardaí in Cork city ensured that a tourist robbed of her travel documents on the day she was due to fly out was able to make her flight.

John Slattery, otherwise known as John Flynn, is accused of committing three offences in the US related to wildlife trafficking, and was remanded in custody to Cloverhill Prison on foot of an extradition request from the United States.

A new dedicated immigration facility at Dublin Airport is due to open in the coming months.

Dáil public accounts committee chair and Fianna Fáil TD Sean Fleming made the claim at the latest meeting of the group this morning, saying the delay has put public money and prisoner health at risk.

The State will have to pay the bulk of a €5m compensation payout following claims from 100 prison officers and prisoners infected by tuberculosis in a major outbreak at a prison.

A 35-year-old man has appeared in court charged in connection with a plot to murder Dublin man Gary Hanley.

Patrick Hutch, who is accused of the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel more than two years ago, has launched High Court proceedings over his transfer from one prison facility to another.

One of the country’s busiest prisons is so overcrowded, inmates sleep on mattresses on the floor.

A man in his 20s has been charged with the murder of a father of four in a bar in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, over the weekend.

Gang culture is posing such a threat at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin that up to one in four inmates are seeking to be confined to a solitary cell for their own protection.

The grandmother of a protesting inmate was lifted up in a hoist to try to talk him down from a prison roof, a court has heard.

A man has been refused bail after he was charged with attempting to launder over €1.2m.

The prison service is denying that a prison officer whistleblower made a protected disclosure about the misuse of public funds despite the head of the service writing to the officer to apologise for his treatment following the disclosure.

A prison officer who made a protected disclosure about a violent incident in prison which went unreported has been threatened with dismissal for not completing an academic course.

The case of Gerard Butler, who helped contain an incident that was never recorded, is the second in weeks on whistleblower treatment in the Prison Service, writes Michael Clifford

Scissor sister, Charlotte Mulhall, 32, and killer waitress, Marta Herda, 29, are just two of 10 women serving life sentences in Ireland.

A repeat social welfare fraudster who was caught after his picture was run through facial recognition software by Department of Social Protection investigators has been sentenced to three years in jail, with the final two years suspended.

A repeat social welfare fraudster who was caught after his picture was run through facial recognition software by Department of Social Protection investigators has been sentenced to three years in jail with the final two years suspended.

A girl who has been left with a scar after she tripped over a mat at the Cloverhill Prison visitor centre when she was four years of age has settled her High action for over €25,000.

Revenue officers at Dublin Airport have seized around €144,000 worth of herbal cannabis.

Gary Davis, the Wicklow man alleged to have been an administrator of the Silk Road website that dealt with illegal drugs and hacking software, has appealed the High Court order that he be extradited to the US and has been granted bail.

The High Court has ordered the extradition to the United States of a Wicklow man alleged to have been an administrator of the Silk Road website that dealt with illegal drugs and hacking software.

The jury at an inquest into the death of a prisoner accused of killing his wife have recommended that staff levels at Cloverhill Prison be urgently reviewed.

The jury at an inquest into the death of a prisoner accused of killing his wife have recommended that staff levels at Cloverhill Prison be urgently reviewed

A man accused of killing his wife bled to death from self-inflicted wounds, an inquest heard. Mariusz Daniel Sarzynski, of Bective House, Beaufort Place, Navan, Co Meath, was being held at Cloverhill Prison for the killing of his wife, Aleksandra Sarzynski.

Convicted criminals have been gifted more than €1m in ‘bus money’ to cover the cost of transport following their release from jail since 2009, new figures have revealed.

A man arrested in a Dublin apartment, a property believed by gardaí to be linked to the “Kinahan organised crime gang”, has brought a High Court challenge to the legality of his detention following a refusal of bail.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm walked out of a Dublin court smiling yesterday after he was released on bail pending his fraud trial.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm could today taste freedom from custody for the first time since he was arrested by US officials last October.

Gardaí are gathering together all their evidence before they arrest two key members of the gang involved in the murder of David Byrne at the Regency Hotel over a fortnight ago.

Prison authorities are struggling to combat the problem of smuggling in Irish jails, with new figures revealing that more than 3,200 drug seizures have taken place in prisons over the past three years.

A 25-year-old man charged with murdering his mother at the family home in Montenotte, Cork City, last week was not brought from prison to Cork District Court, yesterday as he was deemed not fit to attend.

A prison watchdog has warned of the “tremendous burden” on staff in trying to manage tensions caused by overcrowding at Cloverhill Prison — the scene of a riot two weeks ago, during which a foreign national inmate was stabbed.

The solicitor for a detained Afghan youth who was slashed across the face during Wednesday’s riot in Cloverhill Prison said his client is "deeply traumatised" by the experience.

Prisoners took an inmate hostage, broke his arm and slashed his face, during a serious riot at the country’s remand prison yesterday.

It has been reported that some prisoners have climbed onto the roof of the Cloverhill remand prison.

Gardaí were last night continuing their search for a man who escaped from custody for the second time in four weeks.

Even with a guilty verdict to tell him otherwise, Graham Dwyer refused to let go of the belief that he was in charge.

A Meath resident who stars in a TV programme about prisoners and their families has avoided a jail term for a raid and an attempted raid over two years ago.

A garda car carrying a man to prison was ambushed by a group of friends in a bid to free the prisoner, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.