A republican prisoner has threatened legal action after Irish language books were “seized” by authorities as he returned from ...

Packed cells, prisoner attacks, broken toilets, and unsafe conditions have created a crisis in the country's prison system ...

Exclusive: Packed cells, prisoner attacks, broken toilets, and unsafe conditions have created a crisis in the country's ...

Justice minister Jim O’Callaghan said the Irish Prison Service (IPS) must accept all people committed by the courts and has no control over those numbers The €45m, purpose-built prison opened ...

Tensions are escalating in prisons due to some unprecedented overcrowding, with 1,000 in custody in the Midlands Prison on ...

This equates to around three convicted criminals being put back on the streets every day, less than a day after they were sent to jail by the courts.

And in an interview with The Irish Sun on Sunday, the Prison Officers’ Association deputy general secretary Gabriel Keaveny warned the system is at breaking point. Mr Keaveny said ...

A significant jump in the number of prisoner-on-prisoner attacks in the Irish jail system should be blamed on overcrowding, the Prison Officers’ Association has said. Official figures show an ov ...

The new prison comes after the Government began the expansion of 700 places at HMP Highpoint in Suffolk earlier this month ...

A man from County Kerry is on a mission to visit every single Irish pub in the world and so far he has been to 97 pubs in 47 ...

IrishCentral contributor Joseph Connell examines the life of a hero of Irish Republicanism, Máire Comerford, the fearless ...