Reviews urged after prisoner took his own life within four hours of being committed to Cork Prison

The Irish Prison Service has been urged to keep its nursing committal forms under constant review after an inquest returned a verdict of suicide in the case of a man who took his own life less than four hours after being committed to Cork Prison.

The IPS’s head of care, Fergal Black, has also pledged to meet with senior gardaí to see if improvements can be made to procedures around the relaying to prison staff of relevant information that investigating gardaí might have about certain prisoners.