The World - News from Nov. 25, 1985

Eleven convicted terrorists tried to blast their way out of Ireland’s top security prison at Portlaoise, south of Dublin, but were foiled when two explosive charges failed to breach a main gate, a government spokesman said. Sources said the inmates were disguised as guards and used duplicate keys to get through seven internal doors undetected. The escape attempt was thwarted when they tried to blow out one of the three main outside gates. The institution holds 130 prisoners, most of them members of the Irish Republican Army.