Alan Shatter has confirmed there are two other prisoners in homicide related cases that remain at large after walking free from “open prisons”.

A prisoner who killed a garda was on the run last night after escaping from a prison in Cavan.

THE jailing of a Co Sligo farmer who did not pay a fine for using threatening and abusive behaviour towards two hill walkers on his land has re-opened an emotive rural issue — the rights of private property owners versus public access to the countryside for recreation.