Wardens may be punished for locked-out prisoner incident

Prison staff in the country’s newest jail could face disciplinary action after an inmate was accidentally locked outside in the exercise yard overnight.

James McDonagh, a brother of Martin McDonagh, the inmate at the centre of the incident at the new €45m Cork Prison, said his family had feared for Martin’s safety.

“It was a very cold night. He could have been found dead in the yard the next morning,” James McDonagh told The Opinion Line on Cork’s 96FM yesterday.