His name may be best known for fish and chips, but Leo Burdock was trying to batter Black & Tans in the War of Independence.

The High Court has ruled that a prisoner who "slopped out" in Mountjoy Prison had his rights to privacy breached.

Update - 4.54pm: The prisoner who was on the roof of Mountjoy jail for just over four hours was attempting to retrieve a suspected drugs parcel.

Three prison officers at Mountjoy jail have had to take security measures, including extra precautions in their homes, due to death threats from gangland figures.

The Kinahan-Hutch feud is suspected of fueling a massive rise in prisoners in Mountjoy Jail seeking solitary confinement for their own protection.

THE story of the Hales brothers involved two cataclysmic events that had profound impacts on the Civil War in 1922. 

It is not the fault of the Anglo Trio but they are beneficiaries of a jail system that is unable to perform its only and basic function, lock up all convicted criminals equally and without favour, writes John Cuffe

I feel I must condemn Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin’s attack on Sinn Féin at Bodenstown on Sunday during which he called them the “Mafia”.

The suspect in the fatal stabbing of a “model inmate” at Cork Prison was cleared for kitchen duty despite a history of violent knife crime.

Convicted murderer Mark Nash has complained about being jeered at in prison and says he has become distressed and depressed because he has no access to work or study.

Following the release of a book on Kerry’s Republican dead last week, Ryle Dwyer relates how events on Dublin’s Vico Road in 1920 distorted The Kingdom’s history

A demonstration against water charges passed off peacefully in Dublin this afternoon.

Inmates at Cloverhill prison will remain locked in their cells for an extra hour after lunch because of a row over staffing levels.

PHOTOGRAPHER John Carlos has always had a strong attachment to Ireland’s Western islands.

THE decision by the Taoiseach to publicly support same-sex marriage will mean he is about to have a fight on his hands, firstly from conservative Fine Gael backbenchers but, more volubly, from the leaders of the Catholic Church in Ireland.

Fruit and vegetable importer Paul Begley will have to wait a little longer to find out what his new sentence for a tax fraud will be.

Sean Quinn’s solicitor Kevin Winters has said the Quinn family will make a formal request to the Prison Service for compassionate release so his client can attend his granddaughter’s christening.

“Judas” and “Fair play to you, Seán” were the contrasting cries to greet Seán Quinn as he emerged from the Four Courts yesterday.

Series five of Mad Men, the series set in the world of New York advertising in the 1960s, begins on RTÉ Two on Friday.

The Quinns of Cavan/Fermanagh may not like the comparisons drawn between themselves and the fictional Ewings of Dallas.

Seán Quinn Jr got a “welcome to jail” cheer when he arrived into the Mountjoy training unit canteen at lunchtime on Saturday.

New figures show over 4,000 drug seizures were recorded at the country's jails over a three-year period.

A prisoner who killed another inmate in Mountjoy jail by striking him on the head with a sock stuffed with batteries has been handed an eight-year sentence.

Fresh charges have been brought against a prison officer accused of possessing cannabis and cocaine for sale or supply at Mountjoy jail in Dublin last December.

THE Irish Penal Reform Trust (IPRT) has described as “disturbing” findings in an independent report of a “culture of impunity” among some prison officers in Mountjoy Jail.

The State has been given a deadline to decide whether further charges should be brought against a prison officer accused of possessing cannabis and cocaine for sale or supply at Mountjoy jail.

PRISON will be used as a last resort for acts of crime while the number of criminals behind bars will be reduced under plans published by the Labour Party which denied it would be “soft on crime”.

A prison officer has appeared in court accused of possessing cannabis and cocaine for sale or supply at Mountjoy jail.

THE justice system has been accused of failing to protect its staff after a violent convict who threatened to kill a prison warden during his trial for assaulting the official was sentenced to the same jail where his target works.

There are strong denials that overcrowding was to blame for a riot at Mountjoy jail which saw three prison officers injured.

Prisoners’ rights groups said today that overcrowding and conditions were to blame for a riot at Mountjoy jail in which three officers and an inmate were injured.

Three prison officers and an inmate were recovering in hospital today after a riot at Mountjoy jail.

AS you walk through the rows of monuments in Glasnevin cemetery the story of Ireland’s political, cultural and sporting past is everywhere.

FÁILTE go hÉireann, your Serene Highness, Queen Elizabeth II.

FACING at least five years behind bars, prisoner 55511 was escorted from the courts and driven by prison officers to Mountjoy Jail.

Twenty-seven former and serving inmates at Ireland’s largest prison have been charged with rioting.

A PRISONER’S face was slashed after he was taken hostage by fellow inmates in the latest escalation of the overcrowding crisis at Mountjoy Jail.

A prisoner is in a serious condition in hospital following an altercation with a fellow inmate at Mountjoy jail in Dublin yesterday evening.

The Government is coming in for major criticism after shelving plans for the construction of a so-called "super prison" in north Co Dublin.

A Mongolian woman who was caught three times trying to smuggle cigarettes into the State has brought her baby son to prison with her while she serves a six-month sentence.

MOUNTJOY JAIL, which prison bosses have likened to a pressure cooker, boiled over again yesterday as inmates ran amok and attacked staff.

A Nigerian woman who claims her two young daughters are at risk of serious harm due to female genital mutilation (FGM) if the family is deported has commenced her latest legal challenge in a bid to prevent her and her family being returned to Nigeria.