Six prison officers — three of them in full riot gear with helmets and visors — flanked a man charged yesterday with assaulting an officer in the courthouse in Cork in February.

A more determined Ennistymon CBS side deservedly denied holders Pobalscoil Inbhear Sceine, Kenmare a hat-trick of Munster Colleges Corn Na Carraige (U16½ FC) titles in miserable conditions at Rathkeale yesterday.

AS the doors of an east Cork textile factory close for the last time, with the loss of 40 jobs, a major research and development facility will create almost 50 jobs in Kerry with the establishment of medical device company BeoCare.

Almost 50 high quality jobs are to be created at a new medical product manufacturing plant in Co Kerry, Enterprise Minister Micheal Martin said today.

The man, who died in Co Donegal, in a road traffic accident has been named as 51-year-old, Joseph Gallagher, from Ballybofey.