High voter turnout among prisoners around the country

There was a far greater turnout by voters registered to vote at Mountjoy prison in the recent European and local elections than in some of the surrounding areas outside the prison in Dublin.

According to figures provided by the Minister for Justice, Charlie Flanagan, there was a 67% turnout of those prisoners registered to vote at Mountjoy in the European and local elections along with the divorce referendum that were staged on May 24 last.