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Updated 7.28 am
A PRISONER HAS been stabbed to death at Cork Prison after a dispute with another inmate.
The Irish Prison Service has confirmed that the gardaí are now investigating the incident.
The prisoner killed in the incident was a 41-year-old male who is understood to have been serving a sentence for robbery.
No one else was hurt in the attack which happened yesterday afternoon at about 5pm.
It is believed that the man was stabbed in the chest and that the dispute between the inmates began following a disagreement over a remote control.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene by a local doctor.
The other inmate involved in the incident is believed to be in his twenties and have a previous conviction for assault causing harm.
It is thought that it happened in the kitchen area of the prison.
The State Pathologist has been notified and scene is being preserved for a Technical Examination.
Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to call gardaí in Mayfield on 0214558510 or at the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.
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Ahm Gardai are appealing for anyone with information to contact them and then give telephone numbers as well,isn’t that just a little bit mad?
This incident just shows how difficult and dangerous a work environment prisons actually are.
For all those that have come on the Journal with comments such as “Overpaid, Under Educated, Knuckle Draggers” or “Whinging Prison Officers”. This is what we deal with on a daily basis. So try walking in our shoes for six months, nay even a week and then tell us about how easy you think the job is.
Thankfully fatalities are rare but stabbings and slashings are a daily occurance.
They need to crack down on our prisons! This is getting out of hand!
Hard to know if you are safer in prison or on the streets.
Not hard at all. I’d feel safer on the street any day or night.
On the streets. Not hard at all. What Street do you live on?
I live in Cork city and there is no street where i wouldn’t walk day or night.
You ain’t been up around knocka so…
Been to Knocka loads of times. There’s worse places than that in Cork.
Yeah the Douglas hooligans are notorious.
I heard the South County had a lovely pint but there was some scary looking youths standing outside it with terriers and I just didn’t want to risk it…
The guards want people with information to call them, I thought they took the mobile phones off the prisoners, but joking aside, the prisons are over crowded, borrow the money and build a new one in Dublin and one in cork make them big and as future proof as is cost effective, then we can stop overcrowding but also we can stop letting sucm with 91 convections out to cause more trouble because we have no where to put them
New one in cork is being built at the moment.. Should’ve gone with the green field site in Kilworth which would’ve sorted many problems in both Cork and Limerick re overcrowding but IPS doffed its cap to the do-gooders who want prisons in cities to cater for visits instead. They could’ve built a state of the art nick in the sticks for the price of the site in Cork City if sold at the right time..
RIP to whomever it was.
But there should be no TV in a Prison Kitchen , Never mind a remote control.
Do they not have a TV each…
Ger maloney ,,, i base these on fact ,so jump off your high horse, and as you know claims against the staff in the prison system are not made against individual officers ,they are brought against the minister of justice and the prison , i was a secretary in a law firm in dublin during the 80s and early 90s that took on many a case against cork prison in particular and won , and who do you think you are calling me a liar ,its yourself thats a liar and a misinformed one at that ,get your facts right ,end of conversation with you ,,,
Even in prison one is not safe.
It’s about time the prions management got the finger out and got stab vests for the prisoners.
They’ll have them before the 5-8 warder
the sad part is that you are probably correct , says it all really :(
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