Prison Service celebrates new era with first foreign guard

IRELAND’S first foreign prison guard graduated yesterday as 65 new officers finished their training in Portlaoise.

The Nigerian man, in his 30s, was congratulated, along with other officers, by the Irish Prison Service’s director general Brian Purcell.

During a ceremony at the training service unit in Beladd House, Portlaoise, the country’s first foreign prison officer recruit was joined by his family for the presentation of his certificate of qualification.