Too many people are kept in their cells between 19 and 24 hours a day, says chief prison inspector
"It really is an absolutely critical issue," says Mark Kelly.
Even if Dubliners could stomach a mass shooting, not everyone thinks it would be effective.
Illustrator Layli Foroudi translates this week’s reader’s comment, on seagulls and sparrows, into a picture.
Personally, if I had a gun, I’d shoot the lot of them and restore the lake to the placid ducks, swans and water hens