Officer taken to hospital after prison disturbance

FOUR prison officers were injured, and one had to be taken to hospital, following a disturbance at a prison yesterday.

One of the officers was struck in the head with the shaft of a sweeping brush when he attempted to reason with five inmates in Dublin’s Wheatfield Prison.

While the Irish Prison Service played down the incident, claiming it was minor and over in a few minutes, staff representatives claimed it revealed the dangers faced by officers.