A DRUGS courier who was viciously assaulted a week after he admitted having €200,000 of heroin has avoided jail because of the severity of the brain injury he suffered in the attack.

FORMER Meath chairman Brendan Dempsey has claimed that some underage mentors in the county are using their positions to scout for talent to bring to ‘other codes’.

Carlow 0-14 Offaly 1-10

Wexford accounted for Carlow with sufficient ease at Croke Park this afternoon as three first-half goals helped Pat Roe's men into the Leinster SFC semi-finals.