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.

CLOSE to €4,000 worth of champagne, whiskey, brandy and vodka has been stolen from a Cork supermarket while hundreds of euro worth of alcohol have been nabbed from other Cork businesses in recent weeks.

GARDAÍ believe an increase in rural burglaries in recent weeks is a result of the lack of garda checkpoints after the lifting of Covid travel restrictions.

HUMAN error has been blamed for the early release of a prisoner who was jailed for failing to give evidence at a trial in connection with the death of Cameron Blair.

CLOSE to 20 investigations into money mules are currently being carried out in Cork city and county. Gardai in the three Cork garda divisions are currently carrying out the investigations under Operation Adverb and Operation Ransom.

Paramedics were treating a man in the back of an ambulance when the patient’s friend jumped into the driver’s seat and started revving up the vehicle.

A drunken man who was threatening and abusive to gardaí at Dyke Parade in Cork was ordered to do 200 hours of community service to avoid a jail sentence.

A BENCH warrant was issued for the arrest of a Polish man who failed to show up at Cork District Court for two cases against him.

A 53-year-old man was convicted of being threatening and abusive to people at the main bus station in Cork city – and in in particular to a teenaged girl. Garda Kevin Motherway gave evidence in the case at Cork District Court.

A 30-year-old man has lost his appeal against conviction for murdering his girlfriend and mother of his infant son.

A man who raped his friend while she was sleeping in her daughter’s bed with the child lying beside her has been jailed for four and half years.

The family of murdered student Cameron Blair have said that violent knife crime "has to stop".

A criminal with a "serious propensity for violence" has been jailed for 12 years for killing a vulnerable homeless man by pushing him down a rubbish chute.

A FITTED furniture maker is appealing for help in tracing up to €5,000 worth of tools stolen in recent days. The power tools were stolen in the early hours of Thursday morning from his van, parked in Clondrohid, near Macroom.

Gardaí in Mallow are appealing for witnesses in relation to a robbery that occurred on the N20 at Quartertown Upper, Mallow at 4. 30pm yesterday.  A man approached a fruit vendor which was situated on the N20 (Mallow to Cork road) at Quartertown Upper.

A book of evidence will be served next Friday on a North Cork man who was allegedly seen by gardaí throwing a packet of cocaine out a car window more than three years when pursued by gardaí near Mitchelstown.

A homeless man who was jailed last month for digging up paving slabs around Cork city centre and leaving cut flowers in the holes has got another prison term for spray-painting graffiti referring to rapists on a hoarding.

A CORK businesswoman has issued a warning after her Instagram page was hacked and held for ransom. Charlene Corkery, owner of Box of Kindness, discovered on Monday that her Instagram page had been hacked.

CORK stalking victim Una Ring has seen draft legislation she helped draw up be brought before the Seanad a year on from when she woke to find graffiti on the window of her home by an unknown stalker.

AN advocate for prison reform says a few nights in prison is not enough to rehabilitate offenders.

A SUSPECTED €140,000 of cocaine has been seized from a bag thrown on to the roadway near Glanmire last night, during an operation conducted as part of Operation Tara.

A young man who was caught in possession of a stolen driver’s licence was jailed for four months.

SOME offenders from Cork who have been sentenced to Limerick’s female prison have not spent one night there because of lack of space.

A man arrested in connection with a cannabis seizure in Cork on Friday night has been charged and is due to appear before the courts.

A B&B owner in Cork has expressed concerns over scam calls that are affecting business. Gardaí recently warned people to be wary of phone fraud following reports of automated scam calls pertaining to be An Garda Siochána.

GARDAÍ are appealing for the help of the public in the fight against smuggling along Cork coasts. “It is so important that people, if they have a sense that something is not right — make the call and we’ll investigate.