In Cork Prison, ‘slopping out is the worst part’

White plastic bags are caught up in barbed wiring outside the main block of Cork Prison. They’re what inmates use to defecate into during the 12 hours locked in their cells overnight.

They shove the bags out through slits in their cell windows where they get entangled in the wiring on the exterior walls.

On an exclusive tour of the long-condemned prison, John Connolly, the chief officer, tells the Irish Examiner an outside specialist company is hired to remove the bags.