John Hand

DANIEL Kinahan told a court he did not have time to arrange legal representation at his hearing tonight. The 49-year-old has appeared before the Special Criminal Court and Mr Justice Patrick McGrat…

DANIEL Kinahan is far from the life he lived in Dubai and will spend up to 20 hours every day locked up in his isolated cell in Portlaoise Prison. A cell has been cleared out to house the alleged m…

DANIEL Kinahan had six bottles of water waiting for him in his freshly-painted cell as he settled into life at Ireland’s most secure prison block. The alleged crime boss is adapting to his new abod…

WITH Deliveroo-style weapons drops, three attempted breakouts with explosives and a booze-fuelled attack involving an inmate being set on fire, Portlaoise Prison in Ireland has a fearsome reputatio…

THE daughter of prominent publican Charlie Chawke has been released from Limerick women’s prison, the Irish Sun has learned. Alison Chawke, 41, was jailed on July 14 over a vicious assault as…

THE daughter of prominent publican Charlie Chawke is out of prison and carrying out community work as a condition of her early release. The Irish Sun told how Alison Chawke was back living in the p…

A GARDA has told how his life “flashed” before his eyes after the vehicle he and his colleague were in was rammed by a stolen Audi and flipped onto its roof. The shocking incident happened af…

SERIOUS questions must be asked about the early release of Alison Chawke from prison, a TD insists. We first revealed on Wednesday how Alison, the daughter of prominent publican Charlie Chawke, was…

GARDAI are poised to launch a murder investigation after an inmate in his late 30s died in a violent attack in prison. The incident happened in Wheatfield Prison in west Dublin on Thursday ni…

A MURDER probe is under way after an inmate was brutally attacked with a blade and killed in his cell. Prison painter Brendan Gahan, a low-level criminal who had been doing well in jail, had his th…