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Criminals in Irish prisons are being treated to ice-cream every weekend

Inmates enjoy a tasty dessert on Sundays as new figures reveal prison meals cost taxpayers €8.3 million last year

By Gordon Deegan
Irish Mirror

IRELAND — It’s ice-cream Sunday for murderers, robbers and convicts in the country’s jails – with menus showing inmates are treated to the tasty dessert at weekends.

Figures have revealed the Irish Prison Service paid food firms €8.3million for meals to inmates last year.

A Freedom of Information request showed cons were treated to ice-cream on Sundays in Mountjoy, Portlaoise, Cork, Shelton Abbey and Castlerea prisons.

The dessert followed a main course of chicken supreme with pepper sauce, turnips and roast potatoes.

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