Security review at youth facility

Security measures at the Oberstown detention facility are being reviewed as gardaí continue to search for three teenage boys who absconded from the centre on Saturday night.

Security review at youth facility

Four boys escaped from the facility in north Dublin on Saturday, but it is understood one was injured and voluntarily returned to the campus on Sunday.

The circumstances of the escape are being investigated amid concerns that ladders used by builders in the continuing redevelopment of the campus may have been used.

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