A search is being carried out for four women prisoners from Mountjoy Jail who escaped this afternoon while on a training course in Dublin City.
It is understood that the women, who are serving sentences for robbery and drugs related offences had a number of years remaining on their sentences.
They have been named as Debbie Wilson, Theresa Mulligan, Tracey Dunne from Dublin and Jaquomina Peters from South Africa. They had been attending a one-day hairdressing course and escaped during lunch.