A MAN has been questioned about the seizure of €80,000 of suspected cannabis herb in Cork.

Gardaí were verbally abused as nothing but “a shower of rats” by a man who then said he would petrol-bomb their homes. The incident occurred on the evening of April 24 at Leitrim Street, Cork.

A 65-year-old Englishman who lectures in anatomy in the Ukraine was caught breaking into a shop in Cork but he came up with the ‘eccentric’ defence of spotting two men burgling and going in after them to prevent the crime.

A MAN is due in court this afternoon in connection with yesterday’s assault on Magazine Road. The man was arrested after gardaí received reports that another man was stabbed at around 4. 15pm yesterday.

A man is in hospital after he was stabbed this afternoon in Cork city. Gardaí received reports of a male stabbing another male in the Magazine Road area at approximately 4. 15pm today.

A young Cork man who was never in trouble tried to hide his stash of cocaine out on his bedroom windowsill when gardaí called for a search has just been jailed for six months.

Gardaí charged a man with fleeing from custody by escaping out a garda station window and he immediately signed a plea of guilty to the charge.

TWO men are due in court this evening in connection with an incident in Rochestown during which a shot was fired. The incident occurred at a property on Rochestown Road on Thursday night.

A NEW book on the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier will be published this month, as two documentaries on the killing are due to air on Sky and Netflix.

A CORKWOMAN has lost €900 after being duped into believing she had received a call from the Attorney General’s office. The woman, who lives close to Cork city, received the call in recent days.

THE daughter of one of three brothers who died in a murder suicide in Mitchelstown has spoken of her family’s sorrow ahead of a fundraiser she is taking part in this weekend for mental health services.

A YOUNG Cork woman whose father was shot dead is to seek a meeting with the Minister for Justice to call for rights for victims’s families.

THE brother of murdered Frenchwoman Sophie Toscan du Plantier has spoken about the family’s difficulty in trying to understand the Irish criminal justice system following the death of his sister.

Gardaí in Cork say they are investigating an alleged assault of two women in the city at the weekend. The incident happened at Glen River Park on Saturday night. It’s understood the women suffered bruising and soft tissue injuries in the incident.

A 30-year-old man serving a sentence at Cork Prison was caught with €1,800 worth of heroin and over €200 worth of cannabis supplied to him by a visitor.

A mother-of-four was threatened by a man that he would cut off her head and as he spilled petrol outside her house he said, “One strike of a match and it’s bye-bye kids.

A young man who has confessed to carrying out a daylight stabbing of another man in the centre of Cork city as shoppers passed by in the middle of the afternoon. Stephen Casey will be sentenced on May 20.

Retired Cork businessman David Barry has confessed to multiple charges of sexually assaulting boy scouts and has been remanded on bail for sentencing in June.

A 46-year-old man has just confessed to charges of threatening to kill two members of the family of Cameron Blair, who was murdered in Cork city on January 16 last year.

GARDAÍ raided a man’s house and seized more than €5,000 worth of cocaine and six months later they caught him with a €29,000 stash of cocaine at another flat where he was living. He has now been jailed for four years.

Gangs targeting the homes of elderly and vulnerable people living in remote areas bring terror to innocent people, a judge said as he jailed a getaway driver for such a crime for 12 years and banned him from driving for 20 years.

Epic damage and destruction was caused by a 67-year-old man who put a couple through a “living hell” when was a tenant in their Ballinspittle house and today he paid for the remainder of the €16,000 in damage which he caused.

A Cork woman campaigning to have a specific law introduced to tackle stalking is to appear on the Late Late Show tomorrow night to discuss the campaign.

A WOMAN has been duped out of money she was saving to secure a mortgage when she answered a phone call that claimed to be from the gardaí. The woman, who is a nurse in Cork, lost €8,950 in the scam.

A convicted murderer has confessed to carrying out an attack with a glass bottle on a complete stranger in Cork city on Christmas Day.

A MAN has been arrested after a man was threatened at knifepoint in Cork city early today. The incident occurred on Lower John Street at around 12. 15am when a man was walking home.

GARDAI are urging people to take care when parking in public amenity areas after four thefts from cars in west Cork. The incidents occurred in Castlefreke and Garrestown over the last week.

Sky has released a teaser for Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie.

GARDAI have seized approximately 7,000 Xanax tablets in a search in Cork. The search was carried out in a house in Watergrasshill yesterday afternoon by members of Cork city divisional drugs unit, backed up by the Fermoy district drugs unit.

Gardaí have arrested and charged a man in relation to a robbery incident on the Ballincollie Road in Ballyvolane, on April 11. At around 4. 30pm a man was out walking his dog when a car pulled up beside him.

A MAN has been charged in connection with two burglaries in Cobh on Saturday after being found hiding in a bathroom of a pub in the town.

MEMBERS of the public have been warned about a new phone scam in which callers pose as an official of the Office of the Attorney General.

PEOPLE are being urged to be vigilant to a new phone scam.

A Cork woman knocked at the door of a 76-year-old man at night pretending to be looking for a missing dog and moments she later took part in ransacking the man’s bedroom in a ‘merciless’ burglary.

Gardaí have today arrested a woman and seized €4,000 of suspected heroin in Cork city. Whilst on mobile patrol, Gardaí from the Anglesea Street District Drugs Unit stopped a woman, aged in her 30s, on St Patrick’s Quay at around 2am.

Three men have been arrested in relation to an operation investigating a criminal organisation in North Cork while another man has been arrested in relation to an operation in Ireland.

A 67-year-old man will remain in jail until he comes up with the €13,500 he owes a couple he put through a “living hell” by seriously damaging their Ballinspittle house when he was renting it in hopes of buying it cheap.

A Cork man with a history of mental health issues set fire to his landlord’s house when threatened with eviction for drug use and now the sentencing judge has questioned the concept of “care in the community.

Two Limerick brothers who aggressively pushed an elderly woman to write almost €25,000 in cheques to buy a range of tools and equipment have withdrawn their appeal against the severity of a two-year jail term imposed on each of them for the crime.

A DOG stolen after his owner was threatened with a hammer has been recovered by gardaí. Owner Denis McCarthy is delighted to have been reunited with his beloved dog, Rocco, who was taken in a terrifying daylight incident.

A 47-year-old man with 82 previous theft convictions facing sentence for more shoplifting told the judge, “I am very easily led, I don’t even know these things are happening.

Numerous cans of Red Bull were stolen by a 33-year-old woman on repeated visits to the same outlet in Cork. Lisa Keenan of 1 St. Michaels Close, Mahon, pleaded guilty at Cork District Court to these offences.

A young man broke a guard’s tooth and threatened to rape members of his family during a violent incident. Now he has been jailed for a total of ten months.

Cannabis herb worth over €20,000 was seized in Cork City this morning after being discovered within two stereo speakers.

People are being urged to be alert to a “sophisticated scam” being carried out through fraudulent phone calls and text seeking personal information from members of the public.

{element}Gardaí have arrested and charged a man in relation to the seizure of over €4,000 of suspected heroin in Cork city yesterday.

THE Garda Dog Unit engaged on a patrol at Mallow Train Station in a joint operation with the Mallow Drugs Unit.

A 51-year-old heroin addict was caught lying in bed in a room where gardaí found €22,000 worth of heroin, over €1,600 in cash and an electronic weighing scales, it was alleged.

THE family of Sophie Toscan du Plantier is awaiting a decision by the European Commission on a response from Ireland to criticisms about Ireland’s handling of European arrest warrants.

FRAUD in Cork city has risen by almost 10% in the past year. CSO figures for 2020 showed that there were 348 fraud reports received by gardaí last year — up from 317 the previous year.