Gardaí investigating the discovery of body parts at a recycling plant in Dublin have identified the remains.

Acetic acid and a red franking ink ribbon may hold the key to identifying partial human remains discovered in a Dublin recycling plant at the end of July.

It has emerged that the man who's body parts were found at a recycling plant in Ballyfermot is most likely a foreign national.

A mystery man whose body parts were found in rubbish at a waste recycling plant had undergone brain surgery, tests have shown.

Gardaí have said they believe the victim, who’s dismembered limbs were discovered at a recycling plant in Dublin, suffered a violent death.

MICHAEL Donnellan runs his fingers across computer printouts and architectural drawings of the new Cork Prison.

Two footballers have appeared in court in the UK charged in connection with a National Crime Agency inquiry into alleged match-fixing.

Hurricane Fly advanced his claims to regain his Cheltenham crown with a 13th Grade One triumph in the Istabraq Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown.

Overcrowding remains the core problem for our prison system, it must be addressed first and foremost, writes Liam Herrick

A TOP-LEVEL report was published last week on the Irish prison system.

THE Government is planning a mini-Thornton Hall and a new Cork prison as it revealed prison numbers could jump by 50% over the next five years.

AS a resident living close to Thornton Hall I am delighted with the Government’s commitment to review the proposal to build a new prison at Thornton Hall.

The Minister for Justice and Law Reform Dermot Ahern has today announced government approval for the procurement of the first two prison blocks at the prison campus at Thornton.

THE justice system “is breaking down” and is now failing society, rank and file gardaí have claimed.

A FRIEND of a gay man allegedly attacked in Trafalgar Square told a court yesterday he “fell like a corpse” after being punched.

OVERCROWDING and the housing of inmates for the non-payment of fines are putting increasing strain on some of Ireland’s main prisons.

THE aborted super-prison at Thornton Hall will be replaced by a “similarly” large complex, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern has said.

PRISON boss Brian Purcell yesterday admitted overcrowding was a problem and that the growth of crime gangs in society was reflected in prisons.

THE mounting overcrowding problem in Irish prisons looks set to continue following official indications that the planned superprison at Thornton Hall will be delayed well beyond 2011.

THE state body appointed to safeguard the rights of the mentally ill said the Government’s decision to move the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) to Thornton Hall would “promote isolation and exclusion” of patients.

FAMILIES using the planned bus service to the new “super prison” in north Dublin for visits will be pressurised to carry drugs and targeted by other families to “settle scores” inside prison, it was claimed yesterday.

A LEADING developer who has pulled out of five large housing projects for Dublin City Council is to proceed with the Thornton Hall prison project, the Irish Examiner understands.

Concluding our series on the prison system, Cormac O’Keeffe examines government penal policy and finds rehabilitation is possible.

OUTSPOKEN Mr Justice Dermot Kinlen is to be the country’s first statutory Inspector of Prisons.

YESTERDAY the Comptroller and Auditor General’s annual report highlighted many areas of serious concern regarding the process that led to the purchase of Thornton Hall, the price paid and the lack of consistency in evaluating the different sites (Irish Examiner, September 28).

I REFER to the column by Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, July 4) concerning the estimated cost of running the proposed new prison development to replace the Mountjoy prison campus at Thornton in north Co Dublin.

A €70 MILLION prison is to be built on Spike Island in Cork Harbour, Justice Minister Michael McDowell revealed yesterday.

WORK on the controversial new prison at Thornton Hall in north Co Dublin can proceed after a High Court challenge to the development was withdrawn yesterday.

THE State could make €2 billion from the sale of Mountjoy Prison for residential and commercial development, it was claimed yesterday.

Fingal County Council’s refusal to support plans for a controversial prison in north Co Dublin prove the project is doomed, local residents claimed today.

Plans for a super prison in rural Co Dublin should be subject to normal environmental and planning regulations, it was claimed today.

Residents in north Co Dublin are preparing to fight the Government’s attempts to locate a new super prison in their area, writes John Breslin.

COUNCILLORS in North Dublin have registered their protest against the planned super prison by voting to designate the land as an area of architectural conservation.

Voting by prison officers on an overtime deal is to end today.

Prison officers are to publish the result of their ballot on the prison overtime deal today.

The deadline for prison officers to accept a final pay deal offer has been extended for another 24 hours, it emerged tonight.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell tonight gave prison officers 10 days to accept a final pay deal offer before the partial privatisation of the service begins.

Fine Gael has called for an investigation into the Government's decision to spend almost €30m on a site for a proposed new prison on the outskirts of Dublin.

The Government is coming under further pressure today over the price it paid for the proposed site of a new prison complex on the outskirts of Dublin.

Local residents have reportedly expressed strong opposition to the Government’s plans to construct a new “super prison” in the Thornton area of north Co Dublin.

A COMMITTEE appointed to decide the location of a new super prison and central mental hospital only heard of the agreed site on the day the decision was made, just a week before Justice Minister Michael McDowell made his announcement.

There was a fire overnight at a recycling plant in Dublin.