A prisoner has died after being found unconscious in his cell in Mountjoy jail earlier today.
Prison officers at the Dublin jail discovered the man slumped in his cell at about 12.45am.
He was taken to the Mater hospital where he was pronounced dead at about 1.30am.
A postmortem is due to be carried out on the man’s body to determine the cause of death.
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Investigations into the incident are to be carried out by gardaí and the prison service.