Daragh Hayes (37) and Cian Hayes (33), who were both jailed on January 30th last, have served around 19 weeks as prisoners among the general population of the high-security Limerick Prison.

The correspondence was sent in 2024 on a day in May when there were 4,960 people in the custody of the Irish Prison Service (IPS); that number has since risen as high as 5,400.

The Irish Times reported that the prisoner died as a result of a suspected drug overdose.

Officers investigating the smuggling of controlled drugs and contraband into prisons have carried out searches.

A breakdown of costs between 2022 and 2024 shows expenditure of just over €36,000 on gas network costs.

The man was brought to Tallaght Hospital for treatment but got away from prison officers at about 6am on Saturday morning.

The chief inspector said he had raised serious concerns about the degrading conditions that he had found in the cells in Cloverhill on that occasion with the Minister for Justice and the director general of the IPS

The figures were released by the Irish Prison Service

In a video posted on TikTok, a man is seen filming a walk around the old prison which he describes as being one of the best abandoned facilities of its type he has ever seen.

Arising from the circumstances around the death of Mr Syed of Grosvenor Lodge, Rathmines, Dublin 6, the report by the Office of the Inspector of Prisons (OIP) has recommended that when conducting routine checks of cells, prison officers should be especially attentive to the presence of non-standard items, such as “hammock” type footrests, that could be deployed as ligatures.

The call for greater measures to prevent and detect contraband in prisons follows the death of a prisoner a few hours after reports he had consumed drugs and home-made alcohol in Cloverhill Prison in Dublin three years ago

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

Convicted rapist Michael Murray has brought a High Court challenge against sanctions he received from the Prison Authorities for allegedly making a threatening phone call stating there was a bomb at the home of the Taoiseach Simon Harris

Eamon Shield was slashed across his face in Mountjoy Prison by Christopher Coakley, cousin of Kinahan cartel murder victim Derek Coakley Hutch

Gardaí have arrested a man over the supply of drugs into prisons.

Stephen Penrose has brought High Court proceedings over his placement in solitary confinement in Mountjoy Prison, where he is serving a sentence for murdering his friend, Philip Finnegan

A Cork councillor has claimed family members of inmates at Cork Prison are being blackmailed

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

The figures show that more than half the number of the sex offenders jailed at Arbour Hill are older than 50 years of age accounting for 62 of the 105.

Homeless people accounted for almost one in 10 of all convicted persons sent to prison last year, according to new figures published by the Irish Prison Service