Prison officers are calling for gangland criminals to be seperated in our jails.

The Prison Officers Association's annual conference in Athlone has heard that gangs are fully operational within prisons.

They make life harder for prison officers and for other inmates with threats and assaults commonplace. 

Susan Keogh has been speaking to Deputy General Secretary of the POA Jim Mitchell

He began by telling her about a recent incident in Mountjoy Prison where three prison officers saved a prisoner from being killed: