Demspey roughed up by golf injury

TRANSPORT Minister Noel Dempsey was at the centre of a weekend scare after succumbing to a back injury on a golf course in Kenmare.

The minister was playing in the annual Brothers Golf Classic in Kerry with siblings Dermot and Niall when he suffered a sharp back spasm which left him prostrate on the 13th fairway.

He had to be helped off the course and returned Saturday to his Meath base.