Prison upgrades nets in bid to catch drug deliveries

NETS which fishing crews are banned from using are helping stop the flow of drugs into Limerick prison.

Standard fishing nets erected over the exercise yards have been replaced by the tighter meshed monofilament nets to counter new methods devised to get drugs through the nets.

Monofilament nets are illegal for fishing. Standard fishing nets were erected to capture drugs being thrown in from a public road which runs alongside the prison wall, known as Jail Boreen.