FRAUDSTERS have duped a Cork person out of more than €30,000 in an investment fraud. The victim of the fraud had invested after being offered what appeared to be a credible investment opportunity in cryptocurrency.

TWO people have been treated in hospital after separate assaults in The Lough area of Cork city. Both incidents occurred before midnight last night. The injured parties were both men, one aged in his 20s while the other is in his 40s.

A MAN is appearing in court this morning following a robbery at a Cork city pharmacy. The incident occurred on Saturday night at around 10pm, in Douglas.

FIVE people arrested during garda operations mounted for yesterday’s anti lockdown demonstration in Cork have been charged. A sixth person has been fined.

INCIDENTS of criminal damage in Ballincollig are under investigation by gardaí as a local councillor is set to raise the issue with Cork City Council tomorrow.

The case against a Cork teenager facing a drug-dealing charge arising out of a cannabis seizure with a street value of almost €100,000 by gardaí in Cork city was put back until next month.

LATEST: FOUR people were arrested around the country this morning by gardaí who believed they were en route to Cork for today’s anti lockdown demonstration.

ONE man has been arrested in Cork city centre in the past hour. A garda spokesman said the man was arrested in Patrick Street for breaches of the Health Act 1947.

UPDATED: Gardaí confirmed this evening that Cian has now been found and is safe and well. They have thanked the public for their assistance.

Gardaí in Cork have seized 1. 2 kilos of suspected cannabis in a search operation this evening.

A Garda appeal has been issued for a fox red labrador who was stolen in North Cork on Friday. Gardaí posted a picture of the young dog on Friday evening asking people to share the post and to report any information to the Gardaí.

A Cork man who took six guards to arrest him insisted he is a pacifist.

A nine-month jail term was imposed on a young man involved in violent city centre incidents as the judge remarked that the culprit seemed to have a fascination with Winthrop Street.

A man doing his own “debt collection” arrived in a couple’s bedroom in the early hours armed with a shovel and demanded repayment, it was alleged.

A 25-year-old man was arrested and charged with threatening to kill a member of An Garda Síochána.

GARDAÍ investigating the killing of Mary O’Keeffe in North Cork last month have made an appeal for people who were in the area of Dromdeer Woods in Doneraile on Thursday, February 4 to contact them.

A young man was arrested at his family home after a report that he had put his mother in fear by threatening to burn out her bedroom.

GARDAÍ have arrested two people following the search of a vehicle which resulted in the seizure of €59,000 cash at Glanmire.

GARDAI have conducted a technical examination at a house in Blackpool in Cork city this morning. Officers were alerted to a case of criminal damage at Thomas Davis Street in the early hours of the morning.

THE three brothers who died in last week’s murder-suicide will be buried in two separate private funerals in the coming days.

A CRUCIFIX found near the skeletal remains discovered in Midleton is believed to have been from a coffin. And it is understood that a number of other items found at the scene also resemble parts of a coffin.

A man wanted by gardaí refused to stop and caused a pursuit that saw him being followed as he drove around the north side of Cork city, out to Blarney and back into the city.

Members of the public are being asked not to attend a protest against anti-Covid restrictions being organised for Cork city centre this weekend.

A white nightdress-type garment could be the key to discovering the identity of remains found in East Cork in January.

GARDAÍ have issued an appeal this morning in relation to the discovery of unidentified skeletal remains in East Cork earlier this year.

The Garda Commissioner has rowed back on comments he made about groups involved in Saturday's lockdown protests in Dublin. Drew Harris had said the demonstrators included people from different types of factions, including the far left.

The post mortem examinations have been completed on the three men who were discovered deceased in Mitchelstown. The three men have been named locally as members of the Hennessy family.

Gardaí have said that they will be patrolling popular public amenities this weekend to ensure compliance with Covid-19 restrictions.

Post-mortem examinations are due to take place over the coming days on the bodies of three brothers which were discovered in the Mitchelstown area. The three men have been named locally as members of the Hennessy family.

From this weekend, Gardaí will be calling on people who have entered the state and have been reported for not engaging with the monitoring process.

QUIET gentlemen who kept to themselves is the description given again and again of the three Hennessy brothers, Johnny, Willie and Paddy, who died on Thursday night and Friday morning in an apparent murder-suicide in North Cork.

LATEST:Gardaí have said they have now located have located the red Toyota Corolla van that they had been searching for this morning. Investigations are ongoing. UPDATE:Two brothers have died, following an incident at a house in Mitchelstown.

TWO fatalities have occurred following a fatal road traffic collision between a car and a motorcycle that occurred on the N20, Rathgoggin North, in Charleville earlier this afternoon.

A TEENAGER has been questioned by Cork gardaí after an online second-level class was disrupted by someone outside of the class. The incident occurred last month during a class for a group of students from a Cork second-level school.

GARDAÍ say that following a post mortem they are treating the death of a woman in West Cork as a sudden death. EARLIER GARDAÍ are investigating all the circumstances following the discovery of a woman’s body in West Cork last night.

Gardaí have issued approximately 7,950 Covid-19 fines across the range of all Covid-19 breaches including 747 fines for attending a house party, 197 fines for organising a houseparty and 638 fines for non-essential journeys to airports/ports.

SUSPECTED cocaine with a street value of over €12 million has been seized in Cork. It was seized during a joint operation between An Garda Síochána through the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau (GNDOCB) and Revenue’s Customs Service.

Gardaí in Cork seized €15,000 worth of drugs after stopping and searching a woman in the city. Officers, along with the help of the Divisional Drugs Unit in Anglesea Street, searched the woman early on Monday morning.

A CORKMAN has been duped into sending thousands of euro by Bitcoin to a person he met on a dating site.

GARDAÍ are warning people about the dangers of wearing headphones while cycling or walking on country roads. The warning comes as people are confined to exercising within 5km of their homes during the ongoing level 5 restrictions.

Gardaí have released footage showing a drunk driver, convicted in Cork today, weaving all over the road. The footage, posted by the Gardaí to social media, was supplied to the force by a member of the public.

BALLINCOLLIG has been “plagued” by bogus traders and local councillor Derry Canty is urging people to report the fraudsters to An Garda Síochana.

Gurranabraher District Drugs Unit has seized drugs and a significant sum of cash. They seized over €17,000 worth of cocaine during the search of a residence earlier this week.  Over €12,000 in cash was also discovered.

Almost 200 cases of romance fraud were reported to gardaí in 2020. The victims were both male and female and from all age groups. The average amount of money lost was in excess of €20,000.

A man in his 40s arrested in the course of an operation by the Cork Divisional Drugs Unit in Rochestown on Wednesday has been charged. He is expected to appear before a sitting of Cork District Court this morning at 10. 30am.

The dance craze started by the Gardaí continues to sweep the country, with longstanding Cork motor group Johnson & Perrott the latest company to get in on the act.

A man caught getting off a train from Dublin to Mallow with a stash of drugs tried the exact same crime a month later – and he was caught again. That was back in February and March 2018.

A Cork man who raped his partner's “semi-comatose” teenage niece when she was sleeping over at their home after a night out has been jailed for seven years.

Emergency services are attending an incident on the North Ring Road in the Blackpool area and motorists in the area are being asked to be careful.

Gardaí in Cork have seized €80,000 of suspected cannabis following an operation in Rochestown, Co. Cork, on the morning of February 10, 2021.