No-fly zones and new technology will be used to stop high-tech drones delivering drugs and other contraband to prisoners, it has been announced.

Former Irish Defence Forces soldier Lisa Smith, who is facing trial accused of ISIS membership, has been granted bail with strict conditions including an internet and social media ban.

Former Irish defence forces soldier Lisa Smith, who was charged with membership of ISIS, has been further remanded in prison custody for a book of evidence to be completed.

A “vulnerable” man suffering with a psychiatric medical condition, died in his cell at Limerick Prison after a “systems failure, in relation to his incarceration”, his inquest today heard.

Twenty-six-year-old Patrick Dillon was charged with the 11-year-old’s murder today.

A prisoner who escaped from custody during a Limerick hospital appointment Thursday, returned himself to jail this Friday.

A total of 23 pregnant women have been in custody in the country’s two female prisons so far this year, new figures have revealed.

A 29-year-old man has appeared in court in Limerick charged with the murder of boxer Kevin Sheehy.

Hard-hitting report comes after vulnerable prisoner died in cell

Business as usual in Kilkenny, Tipp are kidding no-one, but it’s a revision of the best-laid week-one plans for Messrs Meyler, Fanning, and Kenny, says Derek McGrath.

Two prison units are being opened and 100 cells are being 'doubled up' in a bid to deal with a resurgence in overcrowding in prisons.

A judge has hit out at the failure of the State to provide a secure placement for a Co. Clare man declared insane.

A north Clare farmer today escaped jail after a judge heard that he had complied with a 24-hour ultimatum that all sheep be removed from the farmer’s brother’s land.

A judge has told a north Clare farmer that if he hasn’t removed by tomorrow 14 ewes and their lambs from a one and a half acre field owned by his brother, he will be sending him to jail.

A woman has been jailed after she tried to pass her boyfriend heroin via a kiss while he was under escort on his way to prison.

Regular overcrowding at the new Cork prison has been blamed on the ongoing construction work at Limerick prison.

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A judge has told a mother that to deprive a child of education “is child abuse of the worst kind”.

A Shannon mother is back behind bars and will miss her son’s First Holy Communion tomorrow after being caught stealing kids clothes from Dunnes Stores two days before the celebration.

A judge has jailed a ‘dead-beat Dad’ over the man's insufficient payments concerning his €10,000 bill in maintenance arrears.

Inmates have been given €498,708 in interest-free loans by the Irish Prison Service in the past three years.

A 17-year-old sustained slash wounds to his face and hands, requiring 100 stitches, after being viciously assaulted at his home by two men armed with a carpet knife and blades.

The problems around the false convictions of 14,700 people on fixed charge notices may be bigger than is being admitted by An Garda Síochána, writes Michael Clifford.

Dozens of motorists wrongly convicted following the fixed-charge notice scandal are refusing to co-operate with gardaí trying to appeal their convictions and plan to sue the State.

The State is bracing itself for the outcomes of around 880 court cases on “slopping out” in prisons after it lost a landmark action in the High Court.

A father has narrowly avoided going through the gates of Limerick Prison for maintenance arrears after coming up with the money en route to the prison.

More than 3,500 makeshift daggers and other deadly weapons were seized by prison officers working in jails during the past five years — an average of two every day.

An investigation is underway into allegations of “improper conduct” at Limerick Prison, the Irish Prison Service has confirmed, after a whistleblower’s dossier was sent to Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald

A 59-year-old man has appeared at Limerick District Court charged with the murder of a Romanian national in the city last Wednesday.

A man storing €11,000 worth of cocaine substitute pentedrone has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.

Gardaí and the Irish Prison Service are conducting investigations as part of normal protocols following the sudden death of a remand inmate at Limerick Jail.

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

A new prison working rules system that officials said would save the State almost €300m over the past decade by replacing overtime has cut costs by just €8m.

A prisoner was injured during a failed attempt to escape today, the Limerick Leader reported today.

A man murdered in Limerick was arrested hours beforehand for public disorder and being intoxicated in a public place.

Large numbers of people are still being committed to jail for the non-payment of fines in spite of the new legislation aimed at dramatically reducing the numbers.

A judge who imposed fines on TDs Mick Wallace and Clare Daly has expressed frustration with those fined before him not paying the fines and ending up having “afternoon tea” with the governor at Limerick Prison.

A notorious Limerick killer, has awoken from a coma after he was found last Thursday "unresponsive" in his cell at Mountjoy Prison, following a suspected drugs overdose.

A man was found “unresponsive” in his cell at Mountjoy Prison following a suspected drugs overdose yesterday.

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