IRA prisoner’s girlfriend is pregnant

FRESH questions are being asked about the security regime at Castlerea prison where IRA members are being held after it emerged that the girlfriend of one of the IRA men is pregnant.

The prisoner, Walter Nagle, is serving five years for firearms offences and has not been given temporary release since he was jailed in late 2002.

Conjugal visits are banned throughout the prison service but sources in Castlerea said there was very little supervision of visits to IRA inmates.