A legal challenge against the site chosen for the new Mountjoy Prison was dropped this afternoon.

FAMILIES of prisoners will suffer as a result of the transfer of inmates from the Mountjoy complex to a new super prison in rural north Dublin, teachers and probation officers said yesterday.

THE value of the Mountjoy prison complex has been cut by up to 25% following a ruling by Dublin City Council.

PSYCHIATRIC nurses have described as “extraordinary” the decision to site a new central mental hospital on the same campus as a planned super prison.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell may be asked to appear before a powerful Oireachtas committee to explain why he approved paying 10 times the market value for the site of a new 1,000-bed super-prison to replace Mountjoy.

A post mortem is due to be carried out today on the body of a baby boy who was found wrapped in a blanket by workmen at the Killsallaghan dump near Swords.

Gardai in Dublin are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a new-born baby whose body was found in a dump in the north of the city today.