Steve Collins tells inquest of son’s last moments

An elderly Co Limerick widower who sexually assaulted a two-year-old boy at a crèche has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence at Limerick Circuit Court.

The first Steve Collins knew about his son being shot was when one of his barmen told him there was "a fellow bleeding next door", a court has heard.

The son of a Fianna Fáil TD had to be subdued by gardaí with a shot from a taser gun when he violently resisted arrest after driving at speed through a pedestrian crossing that was in use at the time.

A PRISON officer, said by a judge to have been responsible for a “colossal breach of trust” for smuggling drugs and other contraband into Limerick prison was yesterday jailed for five years at Limerick Circuit Court.