A FORMER prison officer has lost a claim that he was unfairly fired from his job after abandoning his post while minding a prisoner in hospital and having illegal drugs found at his home a few hours later by gardaí.

A MAN who used Facebook to groom young teenage boys, some of whom he later molested, was allowed to continue using the social networking site yesterday after a judge decided banning him from it would be unfair.

Stradbally 0-10 Ardmore 0-7

THE inform and well drawn Star Guest is one to note in the first semi-final of the Startrite Unraced Stake at Youghal tonight.