GARDAÍ are asking publicans to report any offers of cheap alcohol after the theft of thousands of euro worth of spirits in east Cork.

A prison officer has been acquitted by a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court jury of breaking the jaw of a prisoner in Mountjoy Jail.

A prison officer said a report described as "kosher" was shown to him which claimed the prisoner who allegedly had his jaw broken by a colleague had a knife in his cell.

The prison officer accused of breaking the jaw of a prisoner in Mountjoy