A Limerick man who spent six days on the run after escaping from custody has been jailed for four months after a suspended prison sentence imposed for throwing a wheelchair in a busy emergency department was activated.

A Limerick man who was clocked driving at 140km/h during a car chase with gardaí proved too quick for red-faced prison officers yesterday when he escaped custody and ran out of Ennis courthouse along with another prisoner.

When attempting to outline differences between people who reside on the southern side of the River Lee and those who live on its northern slopes, one would always be best advised to tread carefully.

All-Ireland MCHC final: Mayo 2-11 Monaghan 1-10

Given that he is synonymous with the history of Cork City Football Club, it must be quite the double-whammy for the uninitiated to learn that the club’s new manager John Caulfield was (a) born some 3,000 miles from the banks of the Lee and (b) actually made his League of Ireland debut in the colours of Athlone Town.

It was a long journey west for Mayo from Newbridge after they were annihilated by the hosts by 41 points.

God knows, RTE have got their money’s worth from Jimmy Magee over the years.

A motor parts distribution company has been fined €75,000 at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today in relation to the death of a Polish employee who fell from a metal cage in a “reckless practice” the company condoned.

A PRISONER who escaped from a Tipperary courthouse managed to slip out of his handcuffs before running out of the building, chased by gardaí.

Coláiste Bríde, Enniscorthy 8-6 Presentation, Athenry 0-4

Republic of Ireland U-19 2 Norway U-19 0

AFTER spending the last 16 years using the services of the Daughters of Charity St Vincent’s Centre on the Navan Road in Dublin, Sarah Hayden now has only 30 days left there.

SEAMUS COWMAN never thought it would come to this – parading his severely disabled daughter in a protest against health spending cutbacks.

A SIX-YEAR-OLD girl died after a fault with fairy lights set a Christmas tree on fire and gutted her family home during a New Year’s celebration.

THE head of services at a Dublin special-needs school, where nurses and teachers are engaged in a power struggle, has urged the Government to draw up protocols to prevent similar disputes elsewhere.