Convicted murderer Mark Nash has lost his court challenge seeking to be transferred back to Arbour Hill Prison.
Nash, who is serving life sentences for two double murders, is currently incarcerated in the Midlands Prison.
In his judgment, President of the High Court Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns said prisoners cannot expect or demand bespoke arrangements for where they serve their sentences.
He said it would not be appropriate for the courts to adopt the role of micro-managing criminal detention arrangements.
Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns said the courts should only intervene in the gravest of cases.
He said any suggestion that prisoners can or should be detained in the prison of their own choosing or avail of hunger strike or suicide threats to secure their own objectives would create chaos in prisons and fatally compromise the proper administration of the Prison Service.
During earlier hearings, the court was told that Nash was suicidal.
It also heard that he had stopped eating food and was hospitalised due to concerns about his health.
In April Nash was convicted of the 1997 murders of Sylvia Sheils and Mary Callinan in Grangegorman in Dublin.
He had initially been taken to Mountjoy Prison, where he claims his life was under threat.
He was later sent to the Midlands Prison, where he remains.
He had already served 15 years of a life sentence in Arbour Hill after he was convicted of the murder of two people in Roscommon, also in 1997.
