The head of the Irish Prison Service has warned that the system's capacity has been stretched "far beyond its limits".

TWO flick knives were ­confiscated after a drone attempted to drop them in through the netting of a Dublin prison. It has emerged the deadly weapons were part of a bundle recently seized by staff ...

In the Irish Prison Service (IPS) annual report 2024, director general Caron McCaffrey said pressures on the system escalated ...

A special Garda operation has seen a number of Brazilians deported from the Republic in recent months, with commercial ...

Forty years ago a report recommended capping prisoner numbers and developing community solutions. It's still the only way ...

More than 200 prisoners were sleeping on mattresses at the end of 2024 as the State saw its prison population top 5,000, the ...

Two knives were confiscated after a drone tried to drop them through the netting of a Dublin prison. The weapons were part of a bundle seized by staff at Wheatfield Prison in recent weeks. Gabriel ...

An investigation has been launched by the Irish Prison Service (IPS) into alleged assaults of three prison officers at ...

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) has been instructed to reinstate a “naive” but brave prison officer who went missing for ...

Stephen Watson (20), who was on remand for allegedly stealing a phone, died in Cloverhill Prison in April 2021 ...

An unlikely row has broken out over the welfare of Bailey, a ‘comfort dog’ being cared for by a prisoner at HMP Magilligan in ...