Expensive move

IN August 2004, the Irish Penal Reform Trust characterised Justice Minister Michael McDowell’s plans to build new super-prisons in Dublin and Cork as the minister’s own personal Bertie Bowl.

Expensive move
Thu, 10 Feb, 2005 - 00:00

With the news that the Department of Justice paid more than ten times the market value for the site for the new Mountjoy complex in north Co Dublin, I wonder if these comments weren’t a bit unfair.

In comparison to Mr McDowell’s prison-building escapade, maybe the Bertie Bowl wasn’t such bad value for money after all.

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