The officer is receiving treatment at the Mater Hospital after being attacked with a blade by an inmate with a history of extreme violence
A prison officer has been hospitalised with serious injuries following an unprovoked attack at Mountjoy Prison .
It is understood the attacker used a homemade improvised weapon containing a blade. A prison source said: ”This prisoner attacked the warder for no reason whatsoever and slashed his face.”
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