Convicted drugs trafficker Nathan McDonnell remains under threat from Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and, for his own safety, is set to remain on the same landing of Portlaoise Prison where he was ...

Discussions are being held to try to secure a ceasefire from the largest dissident republican group, the New IRA, it has emerged. The Irish Examiner has been told by several sources that ...

The son of a Portlaoise prison officer shot dead by the IRA has launched a new book in memory of his father. Brian Stack was left paralysed and brain-damaged after being shot in March 1983 as he ...

In 1983 Brian Stack, the chief prison officer on the paramilitary wing of Portlaoise Prison, was shot by the IRA on a Dublin street while off duty. Paralysed and brain damaged, he survived but ...

McDonnell remains in Portlaoise Prison where he was attacked by another inmate and required surgery to a broken jaw in the days before his sentence hearing. The Tralee businessman had wire ...

Home Grown returns to RTÉ One in March with episode one of the third season visiting Portlaoise Prison to showcase a ground breaking new horticulture rehabilitation project. Industry advocates ...