Hospital mayhem over ‘prison moonshine’

Prisoners high on a crudely produced “moonshine” mix caused mayhem in a hospital emergency department over the Christmas period, it has emerged.

The patient overcrowding crisis at the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick was compounded by three inmates being admitted on St Stephen’s night, reportedly drunk on ‘prison hooch’.

The inmates, serving sentences at Limerick Prison, were also allegedly druggedon a concoction of prescribed tablets mixed with hand wash gel.