A Romanian national has today been sentenced to eight years in prison after he left a construction worker with brain damage having hit him over the head five times with a plank of wood.

Three inmates who participated in a 12-hour riot at St Patrick’s Institution in the grounds of Mountjoy Prison have been given two-year suspended sentences by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Gardai in Co Westmeath have appealed for information about a missing teenager.