Long legs of the law win six-mile chase

WHILE you might not be able to evade the long arm of the law, in Cork, it is the long legs of the law you can’t escape.

Three young men made that discovery on Wednesday after crashing a stolen taxi and taking to the fields only to be chased by four gardaí. After a six-mile hour-and-a-half cross-country chase on foot through farm, bog and woodlands, they finally caught the offenders. Mallow-based Inspector Senan Ryan said yesterday: “They obviously fancied their chances. But they didn’t realise there were four young and very fit gardaí in hot pursuit.

“Our boys just weren’t going to give up until these three men were apprehended — it was as simple as that.”