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PLANS for a €70 million super prison for Munster have been put on ‘the long finger’ because of the current state of the Government’s finances.

CAPTAIN PAULIE, disappointing at Wexford previously, was back on track in the Munster Waste Management Handicap Hurdle at a packed Cork yesterday.

WILLIE MULLINS’ uncannny ability to improve horses dramatically after they arrive from other yards was again illustrated at Cork last night when De Senectute won the Mallow Print Handicap Hurdle with embarrassing ease.

PRISONER rights advocates are opposing the planned doubling of detention places for women after research has shown large numbers of females are serving time for non-serious offences, including road traffic incidents and non-payment of debts or fines.

THE stark reality of Ireland’s road carnage was laid bare by college students touched by tragedy yesterday.

A BUSINESSMAN who employed a brother and sister killed in a car crash last Monday has called on Gay Byrne to resign from his position as road safety tzar.

Road safety tzar Gay Byrne must stop blaming young people for fatal accidents and should resign, it was claimed today.

TWO Irish rowers who cheated death after a wave reduced their boat to smithereens are due back in Ireland tomorrow.

ESPERADO, owned by Miss Grace Dorgan, and trained by Donal Dorgan in Kilworth, Co. Cork who was successful at Dawstown last Monday, chalked up another success when winning the Open Lighweight Race at the United Hunt Point To Point at Ballindenisk yesterday .