‘Facebook escape artist’ Jason Freyne will be behind bars until 2016 after a judge yesterday imposed a four month jail term on him for his role in a 160kmph Garda motorway chase.

A Limerick man who spent six days on the run after escaping from custody has been jailed for four months after a suspended prison sentence imposed for throwing a wheelchair in a busy emergency department was activated.

A Limerick man who was clocked driving at 140km/h during a car chase with gardaí proved too quick for red-faced prison officers yesterday when he escaped custody and ran out of Ennis courthouse along with another prisoner.

“If there was a hole I could have jumped into and covered it over and gone to sleep and never woke up, both my wife and I would have taken that option.”

Gardaí are investigating an attempt to petrol bomb a courthouse in Co Clare in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Gardaí are investigating an early morning petrol bomb attack at a courthouse in Co Clare.

There was no sign of any old copies of The Beano or Dandy lying around when a judge inspected a speed camera van yesterday.

A woman said she “panicked” and hid a bank’s repossession letter from her husband, as experts warned that families in mortgage arrears they can no longer ignore the problems as this will be “the year of the repossessions”.

AN INQUEST will be held at Ennis Courthouse on December 10 into the death of Richard “Happy” Kelly whose remains were found in a lake after he was abducted and murdered by a Limerick drugs gang.

“YOU may talk of Columbus’s sailing across the Atlantical sea.

The Co Clare woman who waived her right to anonymity after a convicted rapist walked free from court earlier this week is urging other victims to come forward and report their attackers.