TWO sisters who once sought the help of a teen magazine “agony aunt” in a desperate bid to end their sexual abuse nightmare stood at the front of yesterday’s demonstration outside the Dáil.

The Minister for Justice Michael McDowell is facing increasing opposition to the controversial new Dublin prison site in the wake of his statement that building will begin in March of next year.

A LIMERICK father and his four sons are making legal history.

MOUNTJOY prison governor John Lonergan has called for the introduction of schemes that would allow the courts to divert mentally ill accused people to hospital instead of prison.

LABOUR leader Pat Rabbitte has urged the Government to appoint a mediator to resolve the Corrib gas pipeline impasse.

Gardaí are investigating after a 24-year-old man was found dead in his cell in a Dublin prison, it was confirmed today.

Six 100-acre sites have reportedly been shortlisted as potential locations for a new facility to replace Mountjoy Prison in Dublin.

Six people are being questioned by gardaí in Limerick about the activities of criminal gangs in the city, including at least one feud-related murder.

Two men were remanded in custody today charged with the gangland murder of a man shot outside a Dublin prison less than a month ago.