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  "path": "/news/16890618/irish-prison-overcrowding-national-scandal-gangs-thriving/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-04-30T06:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "THE overcrowding crisis across the Irish prison system is a national scandal, officers insist. It’s claimed that bullies and gangs within jails are thriving with intimidation and attacks soaring as a result. Violence in the system increased by an alarming 37.5 per cent in 2025 compared to the previous year, with direct physical assaults on...",
  "title": "Record overcrowding in Irish prisons is ‘national scandal’ as gangs thriving & attacks on officers soaring, fume POA",
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