HOUSES under construction or renovation are being targeted by thieves looking for tools. That is according to gardaí in Cork North garda division, following a recent incident in Kanturk.

A REVIEW has been announced into how remission is granted to prisoners. Currently, people serving a definite penalty qualify for a remission of a quarter of their sentence.

37% of all thefts from vehicles occur in residential locations. 

The culprit managed to escape with a sum of cash.

Builders working in the area gave chase and held him until officers arrived. 

ALMOST 160,000 cigarettes have been seized in Cork Port and Cork Airport in the first eight months of this year. That is according to figures provided to Cork North Central Fine Gael TD Colm Burke after he tabled a parliamentary question on the issue.

The dangerous escapade came to an end when he tried to drive the car up on a footpath in order to get on to a pedestrian path.

When the man was approached outside his home by drugs squad gardaí, he reacted by smashing his phone on the ground. 

The incident happened at around 10am.

GARDAÍ investigating a robbery at a shop in Ballinhassig last month say they are following a number of lines of enquiry in their investigation. At approximately 3.

A TEENAGER has been seriously injured in an incident in Cork city in which a hammer is believed to have been used. The incident occurred in Bishopstown just before midnight on Saturday night, according to gardaí.

TWO people are due in court in west Cork this morning following a burglary.The incident occurred in Ballineen on Sunday.Two people questioned by gardaí in Bandon have been charged and are due before Clonakilty district court this morning.

"We forgive this man’s actions and hope we can all find peace to move forward from this.” 

Now a homeless man has been sentenced to two years in prison. 

GARDAÍ are urging parents and grandparents to educate young people on the dangers of becoming money mules.

“It is absurd for a town of that size to not have a Garda station that is properly equipped."

He admitted that the work was worth very much less than the €7,600 paid.

The defence barrister said he would need time to get his affairs in order. 

The matter came to light when the woman's ex-partner contacted the solicitors’ office for payment. 

A MAN has been arrested after €21,500 of cannabis was seized by Gardaí in Youghal. Gardaí have arrested the man and seized €21,500 worth of cannabis as part of Operation Tara.

The judge said: “It is one thing to bring a positive sample [showing the presence of drugs]. It is another to bring a dilute sample."

The judge said an aggravating factor was the threat to stab shop assistants or to spray them with blood from a syringe.

A SLIGHT increase in offences including public order in Cork city are indicative of a slow return to normality as Covid-19 restrictions are lifted.

LEGISLATION drafted with the help of Cork stalking victim Una Ring will be brought before the Seanad for debate today.

The judge said the jury did not believe the man was hunting but was going to recover ten kilos of cannabis on a country lane.

Gardaí arrested a 65-year-old Cork man arising out of the seizure of almost €130,000 worth of cocaine and cannabis at the weekend.

A six-year jail term was imposed on a young man who fired shots at gardaí from his speeding car from what looked like a real handgun and also stood in a stylised shooting stance to fire shots.

Calls are being made for dedicated, local approaches to tackling knife crime as new figures show that a tripling in the volume of knives seized in Cork City between 2016 and 2020.

A man arrested in connection with the seizure of more than €129,000 of cocaine, cannabis and cash in Cork has been charged and is due to appear before Cork District Court.

GARDAÍ in Cork are investigating a fraud incident in which €5,000 was taken out of a person’s bank account after responding to a text message.

AN investigation into the assets of a UK-based person has led to a court order allowing the sale of a property in Cork which was linked to proceeds of crime.

GARDAÍ investigating a robbery at a shop in Ballinhassig last week are trawling through CCTV of routes between Ballinhassig and Cork city.

A NEW programme aimed preventing crime within the Mercy University Hospital has been launched this morning.

Gardaí have confirmed that the man injured in Friday night's assault in Cork city centre remains in a critical condition in hospital. The man, aged in his 40s, was seriously injured during the incident.

An investigation is underway this evening into an armed robbery in Cork.  The incident happened at a post office/shop in the Ballinhassig area shortly before 4pm.

A member of An Garda Síochána was verbally abused as “a fat bitch” by a 30-year-old man and now he has been jailed for two months. Judge Olann Kelleher imposed that sentence on Colm McDonald of no fixed address at Cork District Court.

A man who put his ex-partner in fear on twelve separate occasions claimed he was not a violent man but the sentencing judge disagreed and jailed him for ten months.

A 46-year-old man tried to get 84 Diazepam relaxant tablets by a forged prescription and now he has been given a six-month suspended jail term.

The drugs were detected as part of an operation where Gardaí had surveillance on another individual.

He said he was convinced there were people in Ireland who had information that could assist gardaí to bring to justice his mother’s killer.

Judge Ó Donnabháin said that medical and related treatment had left the injured party out of pocket to the amount of €1,100.

The man had previously served with the Israeli army and played rugby for Israel. 

An elderly Cork man who met an American woman through Facebook went on to let his bank accounts be used for money-laundering. 

A young man has confessed to a robbery charge arising out of a reported attack on a 50-year-old woman cycling to work very early in the morning in Cork City.

GARDAÍ are warning students after recent incidents of accommodation fraud in Cork city, and after a Cork person was duped out of more than €1,000 for a rental property abroad.

PEOPLE who have had intimate images of them shared without their consent can make an online report about it. The new Hotline. ie/report facility is being launched today alongside a new campaign aimed at combating the sharing of such images.

Gardaí have arrested and charged three men, aged in their 20s and 30s, in relation to incidents of burglary which occurred in Co Cork on Friday, August 27, 2021.

“Parameters should be put in place that they do not have a cash change facility, or put a limit in place."

TWO burglaries were carried out on houses in County Cork on Friday, August 27. Gardaí are investigating two burglaries which are believed to be related, of houses in Castletownroche and Annakisha Co. Cork, on the afternoon of Friday, August 27.

Ann Murphy hears from one mother who is waiting for justice for the murder of her son more than three years ago in Mallow and looks at other unsolved Cork murders.