Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day. On the 24th of November 1985 a number of Provisional IRA prisoners attempted to escape from Portlaoise Prison using loaded firearms ...

Alternatively, you can pay €0.50 per article, capped at €1 per day. The Irish Prison Service have announced that Portlaoise’s two prisons have merged to form the Portlaoise Prison Campus. The Irish ...

Convicted killer Freddie Thompson has applied to have his trial for threatening to kill a prison officer moved from Portlaoise to Dublin, claiming: “If you hold it in this court, I could be shot ...

“I appreciate the security personnel who were on duty during the day of escape from prison,” he said. “Many thanks to the officers who were on duty during the incident and for managing to ...

Portlaoise and Portarlington battled it out in weather that was kinder to players than spectators. A biting wind blew through the unprotected Cill Dara ground. According to form, Portlaoise should ...

Could Rob be set to break out of prison? (Picture ... Could the guard and prisoner be planning an elaborate escape so that they can be together, or will they be caught for their illegal relationship?

After assaulting the woman and hijacking the car, Hehir drove it a short distance to Roxboro Shopping Centre before the 25-year-old occupant managed to escape ... a-half year prison sentence ...