The 10 suspected overdoses by people at Portlaoise Prison have been linked to a synthetic opioid known as nitazene

Detective Chief Superintendent Seamus Boland said nitazene had been responsible for ‘multiple overdoses’ in recent months.

Saoirse Brady, the executive director of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, said prisons are 'overstretched' with a record number of people incarcerated

The Irish Prison Service said it is working closely with the HSE and has secured extra naloxone kits

Mr Justice Rory Mulcahy found Eddie Campbell, who was employed in Portlaoise Prison, had not made out a strong case against his dismissal which was likely to succeed. He therefore refused to continue an injunction restraining his dismissal

Many reports by the Visiting Committees relating to activity in 2021 describe severe and enduring mental health issues for many inmates, sometimes exacerbated by the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and aligned with other issues such as the prevalence of drugs and the risk of homelessness on release.

A trainee prison officer has secured a temporary High Court injunction restraining his dismissal from his employment over alleged serious misconduct

The prison system is grappling with severe overcrowding with anywhere between 350 and 380 inmates being given early release from their sentence over the past two months.

Eamon Cumberton was a enger in car being driven the wrong way down a one-way street when it struck another vehicle, the court heard.

High Court has awarded €2,500 in damages to each of three men jailed for trying to acquire weapons for the Real IRA for the period of their incarceration found by the Irish courts to have been unlawful