Irish Republican News · January 18, 2004

Feuding ‘Real IRA’ prisoners clash

Seven republican prisoners at Portlaoise Prison, in the Irish midlands, were hospitalised yesterday after an early morning fight at the prison during which rival dissident republican factions clashed.

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