# Prison Service
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This year
2024
Defence and policing
Government increases retirement age in military, gardaĆ and prison service to ease staffing crisis
The announcement also includes an increase in military recruitment age from 26 to 39 years old.
Niall O'Connor
5 Mar
25.8k
Last year
2023
THE MORNING LEAD
Multiple prison staff investigated for allegedly using company fuel cards to top up their own cars
28 Sep 2023
40.4k
All time
Mountjoy Prison
GardaĆ advised to stay away from Mountjoy Prison due to active Covid-19 outbreak
14 May 2021
23.8k
Coronavirus
Three prisoners in Portlaoise and Mountjoy test positive for Covid-19
12 Jan 2021
15.1k
12
Cloverhill
'He could have lost his eye': Prison officer injured in assault by inmate at Cloverhill
26 Jul 2019
15.7k
10
Prison Service
'Mind-boggling': Department can't say whether payments to firm were for surveillance of prison staff
15 Feb 2019
17.2k
19
Voices
'If prison does not serve and rehabilitate offenders, they will return to life as before, or worse'
Charlie Flanagan TD
24 Jun 2018
16.9k
20
violent attacks
'Things are not getting better': Prison officers say they're attacked a lot more than official stats say
19 Apr 2018
6.4k
27
on the frontline
'We come together in the most distressing situations': Hundreds to take part in emergency services parade
13 Sep 2016
17.0k
12
Prison
Hostage situation at Cloverhill may have been attempt to make claim against State
15 Jun 2016
19.5k
11
gang culture
Some officers 'turning a blind eye' to growth of criminal gangs in prisons
3 Nov 2015
15.1k
58
Stranded
Inmates in Mountjoy formed pyramid in yard to help prisoner reach drugs
10 Jun 2015
28.8k
53
wheatfield
Prisoner stabbed in head with 'sharpened spoon' in serious condition
30 Apr 2015
22.1k
44
Service
'No special honours' for soldiers, prison staff, gardaĆ who served during The Troubles
26 Apr 2015
16.5k
42
Attack
Two prison officers receive slash wounds in inmate attack at Mountjoy Prison
23 Apr 2015
14.4k
38
suspected overdoses
Inmates found dead at two Irish prisons over Christmas period
27 Dec 2014
31.7k
4
industrial non-relations
Both sides 'disappointed' as officers picket outside Cloverhill prison
18 Sep 2014
10.8k
39
there are loads
From GSOC to asylum seekers, what are Ireland's human rights failings?
16 Jun 2014
7.8k
97
Irish Prison Service
Call for Ombudsman as prison officers subjected to 'malicious' complaints
8 May 2014
4.9k
10
Gary Douch
Death of Gary Douch, killed in Mountjoy, was "avoidable and should not have happened"
1 May 2014
42.0k
65
Prisongate
Conversations between 84 prisoners and their solicitors were āinadvertently recordedā
1 Apr 2014
12.9k
65
Equality Tribunal
Prison officer recovering from cancer awarded ā¬80,000 in employment tribunal case
17 Sep 2013
14.7k
38
Young offenders
āThe culture has not changedā ā St Patrickās Institution finally gets closed down
3 Jul 2013
15.8k
114
on the run
Killer on the run after making escape while visiting sick father in hospital
29 Apr 2013
16.8k
45
Northern Ireland
Hillary Clinton calls killing of David Black "outrageous and cowardly act"
3 Nov 2012
7.0k
57
Voices
Column: Politicians have no place in deciding who gets freed from prison
Liam Herrick
23 Oct 2012
63
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