'We went through an open door': TikToker defends tour of abandoned Cork prison

Two videos, one just over 20-minutes long and another almost half an hour long, have been viewed over 100,000 times

A still from the video tour of of the former Cork Prison building posted online by five young men.

A TikToker who got inside the abandoned former Cork Prison insists he and his friends didn’t ‘break in’ but walked through an open door on the roof.

Jamie Robinson, from Belfast, who began exploring abandoned buildings across Ireland with friends during covid, said: “We went through an open door. It was just exploring, to document it and then we posted the video online.”