Knife accused teen calls detention centre 'holiday camp'

A 16-year-old boy awaiting sentence for possessing a flick knife has described one of the State's most secure juvenile detention centres as “too much of a holiday camp.”

The teen, had been remanded in custody by the Children's Court last week to the Trinity House Detention Centre, in north Dublin. This came after he was charged over a robbery which he allegedly in threatened to throw two boys off a Luas bridge.