Inmate locked outside to sue State

A former inmate who was left overnight in an external prison exercise yard is suing the State for the injury and distress he says it caused.

Martin McDonagh, aged 20, from Mahon in Cork, said “his back is fucked” since the incident at Cork Prison on the night of March 1.

Mr McDonagh was at the time serving concurrent sentences for separate burglary and trespass offences in Cork and Kerry.