References
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Ireland - Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 2 December 2025
Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration Jim O'Callaghan:
“I am very aware that the flow of contraband is one of the most pressing issues affecting security and safety in our prisons. Preventing the access of contraband, including drugs, into prisons is a high priority for the Irish Prison Service, and it continues to examine technologies that might assist in making our prisons more secure, including anti-drone technologies. If suitable technologies are identified then the IPS will proceed with the procurement and installation of same.
The Irish Prison Service is working to enhance yard security in prisons and has invested €5 million to-date on the installation of metallic mesh netting to prevent and reduce drone-enabled contraband drops and this is proving effective.
Over the course of 2024 and to-date in 2025, enhanced netting has been installed at two prisons. To-date, there have been no successful contraband deliveries to the yards where a new netting solution has been employed.”
“Weekly ‘firebomb’ drone drops into Dublin prison yard 'stopped overnight' thanks to new state-of-the-art wire mesh.”
From News article in “the irish mirror” concerning Mountjoy Prison in Dublin:
“The Irish Mirror has learned that the Irish Prison Service constructed the new wire mesh over the D Yard of Mountjoy Prison after cunning criminals managed to set fire to packages that were dropped from drones and repeatedly burned through the old net on a weekly basis.
The construction of the new material, which sources say is far more impenetrable, is believed to have stopped a major crime gang’s ability to drop drugs and mobile phones into the yard overnight.
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Sources say the drone problem had become so bad that a Dublin based gang was managing to have packages dropped into the yard on a weekly basis – meaning potentially thousands of euro worth of illicit items were making their way into the prison.
Sources say the new netting has stopped the gang in their tracks overnight – and joint cooperation with Gardaí – who carried out raids this week, has left the gang reeling.“
Source: Irish Mirror, April 13, 2025