Wrong call: prison foils bid to smuggle mobile to inmate

AN attempt to smuggle a mobile phone into the country’s maximum security prison was foiled yesterday.

Suspicions were raised yesterday morning when an X-ray scanner at Portlaoise Prison identified a suspicious object inside a parcel.

When officers examined the cover of the package, they noticed that it claimed to be a legal document from a named solicitor’s office and that the intended recipient was Geremiah Cooper.