A Dublin teenager, who became the first person in the State to be charged with a newly designated offence for smuggling drugs into a prison, has been given a one-year sentence.

Lawyers for a convicted sex offender today withdrew a High Court application to try to secure his release after the striking out of statutory rape legislation.

A 24-hour ‘lock-down’ of prisoners in St Patrick’s Institution in Dublin would not stop drugs being smuggled in illegally, the deputy governor said today.