No assaults by prisoners at Loughan House in 2024

It’s emerged there was no physical assaults by prisoners on either fellow prisoners or staff at Loughan House in 2024.That is a reduction of one on 2023 figures.Official figures published by the Irish Prison Service, however, do show an overall 31 per cent rise in “prisoner-on-prisoner direct physical assaults” within the Irish prison system between 2023 and 2024.There are now 5,268 prisoners in custody nationally, which is 114 per cent of bed capacity.Dromahair native and Prison Officers’ Association’s deputy general secretary, Gabriel Keaveny says the problem of assaults comes back to overcrowding.