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Wednesday 29 November 2023 Dublin: 3°C

# Banged up abroad

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Irish embassies provided help to 344 citizens arrested abroad during a busy 2018
Consular assistance was provided to Irish citizens in a range of circumstances this year.
'Vast majority' of 1,200 Irish locked up abroad are in the UK
However, the Department says that the supports available to those people vary.
Here's how 18-year-old Rowan Cheshire looks after crashing on Sochi halfpipe
The Team GB athlete tweeted this image from her hospital bed this morning.
Australian surfer caught with marijuana in Bali released after 9 years in prison
Schapelle Corby has always insisted the 4.1 kg of marijuana found in her body board bag was planted there.
Michaella is "in good spirits, but very frightened for the future" - solicitor
Michaella will be moved to a permanent jail in the next 24 hours, her solicitor says, but prisons in Peru are rife with TB and HIV.