A 24-year-old man has died after being stabbed by a fellow prisoner on a landing in Dublin's Mountjoy Jail yesterday evening.

A post mortem is due to be carried out today on the body of a young inmate who died after he fell ill in his cell at Limerick Prison yesterday.

The High Court is considering the legality of the detention of 19 Moldovan immigrants who have been held at Dublin's Mountjoy jail since Sunday.