The Sunday Interview: Michael Donnellan

Michael Donnellan, director general of the Irish Prison Service, says Ireland's social policy needs an overhaul to help combat crime, writes Michael Brennan.

Michael Donnellan. Picture: Maura Hickey

CV: Michael Donnellan

**Role:** director general of the Irish Prison Service

**Age:** 57

**Lives:** Co Meath

**Family:** wife Catherine, and adult children Callum and twin daughters, Orla and Clare

**Favourite book:** I really enjoyed The Da Vinci Code (although I confess, I listened to it on tape)

**Favourite album:** Walk the Line by Johnny Cash

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Michael Donnellan is a prison service director who does not not buy into the “lock-em up and ...