Patrick O'Connell

THE IRISH Prison Service has this evening issued an urgent drug alert across the prison estate after analysis linked the death of an inmate in Mountjoy to a banned Nitazene type substance.

Tributes have been paid to a 21-year-old prisoner whose death in Mountjoy Prison on Thursday has sparked a nationwide killer drug alert across Ireland's prisons.

Children as young as 12 were among those who fired rocks, golf balls and pieces of concrete at gardai outside the Crown Paints factory in Coolock on Friday night.

An €8 million drug seizure confiscated alongside a stash of €1 million in cash is suspected of belonging to associates of drug dealing brothers David and Christopher ‘Git' Waldron.

Child rapist Declan Hannon is back on the streets and is now living a short distance from a creche.

This is the thieving part-time taxi-driver who fleeced an ageing nun out of €20,000.

A garden centre where it is alleged crystal meth valued at €32.8m was stored by Tralee businessman Nathan McDonnell has been rebranded.

Cooking With Como- The Inn At Little Washington

One-time mob boss Hughie Irwin declared himself “an innocent man” and lambasted the State for “wasting taxpayers' money” – after a €9k money-laundering charge against him was sensationally dropped.