The Irish Prison Service (IPS) plans to introduce body-worn cameras for staff as the number of gangs in prisons has increased since last year, leading to growing violence.

The Irish Prison Service (IPS) is set to allocate an estimated €480,000 over the next four years to provide a hairdressing skills workshop for inmates at the female Dóchas prison in Dublin.

Heroin sewn into jeans and drugs found in a courthouse public toilet were among the contraband recovered by the Irish Prison Service this week.