Prison inmates dine on ice-cream for Sunday lunch

It’s ‘ice-cream Sunday’ for murderers, gangland bosses, and other convicts with menus from the country’s prisons showing inmates are treated to an ice-cream dessert on a Sunday.

The Irish Prison Service paid food firms €8.3m last year to provide meals to inmates.

According to a Freedom of Information request concerning the menu for prisoners during one week a March, prisoners were treated to ice-cream for dessert on Sunday, March 23, at Mountjoy, Portlaoise, Cork, Shelton Abbey, and Castlerea prisons.