MORE than a quarter of Irish prisoners are back in jail within a year of release, and a majority are back in jail within four years, according to a study of 19,995 inmates undertaken over a four-year period up to 2004.

ONE man ministerial car crash Tim O’Malley was guilty of turning an accident (his bizarre views on mental illness) into an emergency (his potential resignation) yesterday, as Taoiseach Bertie Ahern struggled to clamber through the wreckage left scattered on the Dáil floor.

A YOUNG boy last night who talked of killing himself at the age of six, put a face to the plight of children who cannot get proper treatment for serious mental health problems.