A 30-year-old inmate at Mountjoy jail has died after he was stabbed in a cell.
The man has been named as Mr Alan Green, is from Bray in Co Wicklow. Mr Green was serving a nine-month sentence for possession of drugs.
Mr Green was taken to the Mater Hospital after being stabbed in the chest on the jail's B landing just after midday. Gardaí have opened a murder investigation.
The Governor of Mountjoy Prison, John Lonergan, has condemned the murder as an act of brutality and savagery. Mr Lonergan accepted that the system had failed in its duty of care to the young man and his family.
He apologised for that failure, and conveyed his sympathy to Mr Green's family on their loss.
Mr Lonergan also said such deaths were extremely rare in the prison system, and that he did not believe that the murder was connected to any staffing issues.
