A former resident of a Cork mother and baby home has initiated a High Court damages action against the State, the HSE and the order of Catholic nuns who ran that facility.

Gardaí were called to a bus at Victoria Road in Cork where a passenger was asleep and couldn’t be woken and when they managed to wake him he threatened to kill them.

A medical report was furnished to Cork District Court in respect of a woman accused of carrying out an aggravated burglary where it is alleged that she tried to take a three-year-old girl from her mother.42-year-old Rosemarie O’Sullivan of ...

A Cloyne woman who recently went back to the home of a neighbour she had attacked with a poker over two years ago – banging at his door and shouting at him - was jailed yesterday.

SURVEILLANCE gardaí watched a well-educated man getting instructions by phone to go to a drugs pick-up and they arrested him moments later with a €32,000 stash of cocaine. That was at Christmas 2019.

The Court of Appeal has upheld a four-year sentence for an unlicensed teenage driver who knowingly sped off after hitting a toddler, leaving him 'bleeding and lifeless' on the road. The court heard the boy now has a life-long brain injury.

A Fermoy woman woke in the middle of the night to see a man crawling around on the floor of her bedroom and now the culprit has been jailed for two years.

An opportunistic crime saw a visitor to Fermoy carrying out a burglary at a beauty salon when he found that someone else had broken the front window earlier in the night.

A garda was threatened that everyone in his family would be raped by a man accused of putting his own heavily pregnant partner in fear.

A nine-month jail term was imposed on a man for attacking two prison officers, making lewd and offensive comments to a garda and breaking into apartments in Cork city where he left a trail of his own blood.

STEALING hundreds of euro worth of coal and briquettes from outside a shop and thousands of euro worth of tools from workmen’s vans resulted in the culprit being jailed for 16 months.

The carcasses of dead cattle were found across farmland at Castletreasure on the outskirts of Cork city and today the farmer was prosecuted for animal cruelty and related charges.

A manslaughter charge was brought against a 48-year-old man arising out of an alleged assault at a soup kitchen in Cork. Detective Garda Neil Walsh arrested the man and brought him before Cork District Court.

An Inchigeela man who came to the assistance of two Lithuanian men when their car crashed into a field at a bad bend ended up being attacked by the men he helped.

A woman who commented about the violence in a Youtube video was attacked by a man drinking heavily all day who struck her over the head with a bottle and punched her in the face.

The biggest ever seizure of heroin in Cork city with a street value of over €400,000 resulted in a key player in the supply of heroin in the area being jailed for eight years.

A psychiatric report is to be prepared on a 42-year-old woman accused of an aggravated burglary where she allegedly grabbed a three-year-old girl from her sleeping mother.

Former Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt has died following a battle with cancer. McKevitt, who was one of four men found liable for the Omagh bomb, had been diagnosed with terminal cancer a number of years ago.

A legal ban on reporting the identity of murdered children in Ireland must be changed to ensure transparency, the Taoiseach has said.

Two burglars, whose crime was likened to coronavirus, have lost their appeals against sentence for targeting the home of a couple in their late 80s, while they were out attending Mass.

A 17-year-old joined an attack on another teenager by breaking a vodka bottle over his head as he lay helpless on the ground and then stabbed him repeatedly with the neck of the bottle. He was jailed for 18 months today.

A motorist was banned from the roads for twenty years for continuing to flout disqualification orders and drive dangerously without insurance.

A 20-month old girl was kicked in the back and picked up off the ground by her hair by her mother who was drinking a bottle of wine in a suburban park in Cork city.

A man with a gripe against a publican for barring him from her premises in Ballincollig smashed windows at the pub on two separate occasions.

A member of An Garda Síochána said a man tried to bite him during an early hours incident, threatened to kill him and said that he was related to a particular family and that the garda would be ‘got’.

AN off-duty garda putting diesel in his van managed to make a drugs bust – detecting a €1,440 package of amphetamines being moved around in another car at the filling station.

A three-year-old boy was found by gardaí shivering with the cold in a cabin at the back of a derelict house in Cork city while his mother and her partner were visibly involved in the taking of heroin.

An 18th-century style faction fight saw four men attacking a lone man in a busy garage in Blarney and video-recording it for social media. Two men were jailed for nine months for their part in the crime.

The girlfriend of a man accused of raping a sex worker in Kerry admitted to gardaí that she lied to them to protect the accused because she loves him.

The High Court has refused to lift a stay on a construction industry adjudicator dealing with a claim by a contractor for a further €1m payment for electrical works carried out in the revamp of Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork.

GARDAÍ were verbally abused by a motorist when his uninsured BMW was being seized following two dangerous driving incidents.

THE smell of cannabis from a man walking along the main street of Castlemartyr attracted the attention of gardaí and when they opened the suitcase he was carrying they found €33,750 in cash.

A POLISH man who is wanted in his home country for drug trafficking was caught with a stash of over €10,000 worth of different drugs at his home in Skibbereen.

A motorist doing 155 kilometres per hour in his Volkswagen Golf was later found with a €17,000 stash of cocaine in his underpants. Adeyinka Olamilekad Jarckel who was living in Clondalkin, Dublin, was stopped in Cork at a checkpoint.

A 73-year-old woman accused of assault causing harm to a 16-month old girl at a crèche in County Cork by pulling her hair, squeezing her face, shouting at her and slamming her into a chair has had her case dismissed.

A Nigerian man caught with cannabis with an estimated street value of €20,000 told gardaí it was a completely different type of material to normal cannabis and that he was using it to make soup.

A FERMOY woman woke in the middle of the night to see a man crawling around on the floor of her bedroom. Garda Brian McCabe said the woman screamed and got out of bed but could not see where the intruder had gone.

A 79-year-old Limerick man who propositioned a schoolboy for sex in a public toilet in North Cork was remanded in custody for one week pending sentence.

A 50-year-old man caught dealing cocaine and cannabis in 2017 turned his life around so completely with rehabilitation and charitable work he has since been playing music at nursing homes.

A BURGLAR brought a bottle of champagne with him when he burgled a house in his neighbourhood.

A Mallow woman made such a bad effort at growing cannabis, the investigating officer said it was so rotten she couldn’t have given away if she had wanted.

An 18-month jail term was imposed on a Youghal man for a violent assault on a young woman in the smoking area of a local bar.

A 75-year-old man said it was not until this late stage in his life that he had seen the face of “pure evil” at his own front door.

A 19-year-old Cork City FC player was reminded today that he was going to have to live with the fact that his dangerous driving had caused the death of another man.19-year-old Edward Power McCarthy of 66 College Avenue, Moyross, County Limerick, was ...

A YOUNG man carried out an attempted knifepoint hijacking of a couple’s car as they were about to drive home after a meal in Cork city centre last July and they were terrified by the crime.

A MOBILE home at the back of a house in Glounthaune was used to hide a €43,000 stash of drugs and a man has been sentenced to three years in jail.

A young woman wept as her husband was jailed for a year arising out of an investigation that followed her giving birth to their first child when she was aged 13 and their second child the following year.

Cork GAA has brought a High Court challenge over a claim for what it says is an attempt by a contractor to seek a further €1m payment for electrical works carried out in the revamp of Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

A 33-year-old Coachford man was killed just over three years ago when a trench he was working in collapsed on top of him and today two men pleaded guilty to health and safety breaches and were fined.

A father-of-nine, who told Gardaí he was disgusted that the man he stabbed in the back had lived, has been jailed for seven years for the unprovoked attack.