Two investigations are under way after a prisoner was held hostage in Mountjoy jail this evening.

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Gardaí in Dublin have seized drugs with an estimated value of over €250 000.
A viable explosive device has been found in the front garden of a house in Cranog Close, Ballymun, having failed to detonate.
The Department of Health has confirmed plans to make swine flu vaccine available nationwide in the autumn.
Thirteen people have been injured, six seriously when a train derailed near the southwestern French city of Limoges.