IT’S ALL horses for courses for the woman selling this one-off West Cork home, small holding, horse facility par excellence and a whole host more: as an engineer, she’ll simply saddle up and start all over again.

A woman prison officer lost consciousness during a savage attack by a woman in Limerick prison and said she would not have survived, but for the intervention of colleagues.

ALMOST €10 million was paid to a private company to provide residential, aftercare and respite services for 60 troubled teenagers last year.

A WOMAN who attacked security staff and gardaí at the emergency department of a Cork hospital and shouted that she hoped patients would die was yesterday jailed for six weeks at Cork District Court.

There is no mental health treatment centre here capable of caring for a teenage girl whose violent temper has resulted in 30 convictions for assault, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.