Dissident republican inmates stage dirty protest

The Prison Officers Association claims that dissident republicans are running riot at Portlaoise Prison.

Dissident republican inmates are staging a dirty protest and holding parades in front of paramilitary murals in the country’s maximum security prison, warders claimed today.

Subversive prisoners, belonging to factions that recently murdered a PSNI constable and two British soldiers, are also allowed to regularly order in food, it is alleged.