Cork Prison officer hospitalised after ‘vicious’ inmate attack

A PRISON officer in his late 40s was attacked and then “repeatedly pummelled” as he lay semi-conscious on a landing of a wing in Cork prison yesterday.

The Prison Officers’ Association (POA) described the attack, which left the officer in hospital, as vicious and unprovoked.

The attack took place after the officer, who has 25 years’ service, asked an inmate if he wanted to go for a recreation break.