“A new £7.5m Prison Service computer system may have to be axed – over fears an IRA mole has had access to it.

The upgraded system was launched earlier this year, and provides precise details of each prison officer’s shifts at Ulster’s two main jails – Maghaberry and Magilligan – for each day of the next year.

It allows prison service officers to access what days they are scheduled to work, and what times they are due to start and finish.

Now it is understood concerned prison bosses are considering scrapping the computer system, over fears that the Provisional IRA may know the work routines of every prison officer employed by the under-fire service.” Belfast Telegraph