Nearly 400 litres of homemade alcohol was seized in Irish prisons last year
According to freedom of information figures, nearly half was found in Mountjoy jail.
A total of 391.5 litres of hooch was seized in eight jails across the country last year.
49% of last year's total was seized in Mountjoy Prison - involving 192 litres of hooch.
That's followed by 82 litres in Portlaoise, 41 in Wheatfield Prison in Dublin and 35 in Cork jail.
The total figure is almost exactly the same as 2019, when 395.5 litres of hooch was seized.
John Cuffe is a criminologist and former prison officer - he says it's been popular among inmates for many years.
"It's quite easy to make, and it's quite easy to store. It's generally made up of fruit, apples, oranges, bananas, sugar mixed in with that. White bread is soaked. It's then put away ferment and normally goes in these large two litre Coca Cola bottle. They tend to stick it under beds, near radiators, places like storage areas where cleaning goods are kept, so easy to make, easy to hide and staff are always on the lookout for."
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