Six men have been sentenced over a “violent protest” in Mountjoy Prison in which five prison officers were injured.

A TOTAL of 22 Garda inspectors, including three women, have been promoted to the rank of superintendent and assigned to new stations.

A convicted drug dealer who was caught driving a stolen motorbike while he was on bail awaiting sentence for selling heroin has been jailed for 12 months by Judge Katherine Delahunt.