Walsh provides description of prisoner who slashed him

NOTORIOUS convicted paedophile Tony Walsh has given a description of the inmate who knifed him in the face in prison on Sunday.

The 56-year-old former priest was jailed last month for 16 years, with four years suspended, for sexually abusing three young altar boys more than 20 years ago.

He was returning from Sunday Mass at the Midlands Prison to his cell when he was slashed across the face by an inmate using a makeshift knife.