Portlaoise
Britishnoun
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On Kinhan's return to Ireland, RTÉ have said that a large security operation will be in place and the prison service has also upgraded facilities in the maximum-security Portlaoise Prison.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Portlaoise Panthers have said replaying the final 0.3 seconds of the game would be in "nobody's interest"
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024
He then moved to Portlaoise with his family before the Easter Rising to work as a journalist for the Nationalist.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2016
The charges against Father Moloney were dropped after he spent two months in Portlaoise Prison, Ireland’s maximum-security lockup, with notoriously militant I.R.A. men.
From New York Times ● Apr. 14, 2012
In the Portlaoise case, the judge, claiming that Britain had failed to identify the suspect formally, refused to extradite Patrick McVeigh, who is accused of complicity in four London bombings between 1981 and 1983.
From Time Magazine Archive
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