Discussions are being held to try to secure a ceasefire from the largest dissident republican group, the New IRA, it has emerged. The Irish Examiner has been told by several sources that ...

Tensions are escalating in prisons due to some unprecedented overcrowding, with 1,000 in custody in the Midlands Prison on Friday for the first time. Fears are now emerging that Kinahan cartel ...

A woman who had studied criminology admitted bringing drugs into Portlaoise Prison. Suzanne Delaney (31) of 48 Radharc na Farraig, Convent Lands, Wicklow town, admitted bringing Spice synthetic ...

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A son of steakhouse murder victim Jason Hennessy Snr has gone on hunger strike in Portlaoise Prison, the Sunday World can reveal. Devon Hennessy is one of five people on remand in jail after being ...

The son of a Portlaoise prison officer shot dead by the IRA has launched a new book in memory of his father. Brian Stack was left paralysed and brain-damaged after being shot in March 1983 as he ...

Former businessman Nathan McDonnell is currently serving 12 years in the maximum security Portlaoise Prison, after the biggest crystal meth seizure in the state’s history. The garden centre owner was ...

Evil wife killer Joe O’Reilly sustained a bloody gash to the head during a vicious assault by a fellow prisoner in the Midlands Prison on Monday. The convicted murderer was walking through the ...