A notorious Scottish convict who escaped from a prison in Ireland has been transferred to a jail in England, police said.

Gardaí now suspect four people were involved in the escape of Derek Brockwell from custody at Tallaght Hospital two weeks ago.

Re the Derek Brockwell escape from Tallaght Hospital and the injury of prison officers: why are prisoners being treated as ordinary public outpatients and inpatients when they are not ‘ordinary’?

The body representing the country’s prison officers has expressed its disappointment at the Irish Prison Service’s decision to conduct an internal report into Derek Brockwell’s escape from Tallaght Hospital.

Staff at a pharmacy Derek Brockwell is suspected of robbing at knife point have described their ordeal.

A notorious on-the-run Scottish prisoner stabbed himself before he was recaptured in Belfast last night.

A convicted criminal, who escaped custody on Tuesday, has spent the night in hospital after he was arrested in Belfast.

Derek Brockwell left a prison officer with his “intestines hanging out” such was the ferocity of his knife attack, gardaí have said.

Escaped convict Derek Brockwell was in a serious condition in a Belfast hospital last night after being injured when confronted by police. PSNI used a Taser stun gun to incapacitate him with reports suggesting he had injured himself with a knife, though it is unknown whether it was deliberate.

AFTER Ireland’s air and sea ports were on high alert following the escape of a violent and dangerous prisoner who stabbed two prison officers, the spotlight rightly turned to the vexed issue of security. 

A notorious British prisoner who escaped after allegedly stabbing two prison officers and fleeing from Tallaght Hospital in Dublin has been recaptured.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has denied that budget cuts had anything to do with the escape of a prisoner at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin yesterday.

Gardaí are continuing to search for a convicted criminal who stabbed two prison officers yesterday and escaped from custody while on a visit to Tallaght Hospital in Dublin.

Fianna Fáil is calling for minimum mandatory sentences for those convicted of assaulting members of the prison service.

A major manhunt is ongoing in Dublin, after an inmate at Portlaoise Prison made a violent escape, during which two prison officers were stabbed.

A prisoner has escaped from Tallaght hospital after stabbing two prison officers.