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

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 ...

A former super-middleweight champion boxer who fled to Ireland, Thailand and Mexico after he was caught supplying cocaine to ...

INMATES are getting drugs, weapons and phones delivered by drone to their cell windows. And prison officers are ­fearful that ...

The court heard there was history between the two men when the assault happened in the yard of Cloverhill Prison and the ...

A domestic abuser who strangled his former partner twice and maintained having limited recollection of either incident has ...

Christopher Farrow was jailed for life in 2000 for the murder of mother-of-two Wendy Speakes in West Yorkshire in March 1994.

In one of the most gruesome killings ever seen in Ireland, Linda and Charlotte Mulhall killed their mum's boyfriend, Farah ...

Aussie-born engineer Robert Pether has been held for the last four years on trumped up fraud charges in Baghdad ...

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

Former UFC double champion Conor McGregor could face up to seven years in prison in Ireland for inciting hatred against ...