A Portadown man accused of beating a woman with a plank of wood, a hammer and a guitar at his home has promised a ...

O’Callaghan, who came from Tralee, was an IRA member between 1970 and 1985 and a Garda informant from 1979 to 1985. He died ...

A sharp rise in the number of attacks on prison officers is down to "crowding" in jails leading to "instability, incidents ...

Convicted loyalist killer Clifford McKeown, who murdered a Catholic taxi driver in a sectarian attack during the 1996 ...

There are 175 vacancies across the Northern Ireland Prison Service (NIPS), according to new figures, at a time when the ...

Thank you for supporting Ireland's best local journalism! An inquest is to get underway next week into the death of a Derry man in Maghaberry Prison two years ago. Christopher Stokes, aged 37, was ...

But lawyers representing a transgender woman confirmed they are still pursuing a legal challenge amid claims she spent more than a week in a male prison. Michelle James, 63, was arrested last month ...

A sharp rise in the number of attacks on prison officers is down to "crowding" in jails leading to "instability, incidents and violence". That is according to Justice Minister Naomi Long ...

“There is also an issue about whether she was treated lawfully when she was in prison.” But Laura McMahon KC, for the Department, argued that James was initially taken to Maghaberry based on a ...

A man identifying as a woman has been transferred to a women’s prison in Northern Ireland after a legal challenge.