A teenage boy who caused the death of a 16-year-old girl and permanent injury to a 17-year-old male in crash while driving at 119 kmh in a 50 kmh zone has had his sentence reduced on appeal.

Judge Marie Keane said of the 40-year-old at Cork District Court, “The breach of regulations is just an indication of this man’s attitude – He can do what he likes."

Frank Roche represents the Fermoy Municipal Area on Cork County Council as an independent member

The judge warned that she would not tolerate his ‘nonsense’.

Garda Tom Delaney and Detective Garda Bríd Norris gave evidence of the charges and said that books of evidence were now being prepared in the cases

The assault causing harm charge relates to November 23, 2021, in Cork city.

The investigation is ongoing.

A man arrested with an alleged stash of €180,000 worth of cannabis in Castlemartyr,  Cork in October 2020 has been formally charged in the case.

The accused pleaded guilty to engaging in threatening behaviour and being intoxicated to such an extent that she was a danger to herself or others.

Puska is accused of killing the 23-year-old school teacher, who was attacked while out running along a canal near Tullamore, on Wednesday, January 12.

The convictions under appeal by the 64-year-old all related to being initially stopped at a Garda checkpoint near Schull on August 25, 2019.

Sgt John Kelleher said the defendant kept telling Det Garda Breen to fight him and he was abusive throughout the incident.

Defence solicitor, Frank Buttimer, said the 47-year-old man had no previous conviction of any kind and he said that as an act of recklessness being prosecuted as an assault it was at the lowest possible level for such an offence

A judge told a man who was out on the road shouting and causing a drunken disturbance — even though he had two suspended jail terms hanging over him — that he should have been as quiet as a church mouse in his circumstances.

The defendant had a conviction from Dublin Circuit Court for having drugs for sale or supply, for which he got a suspended jail term. The offence at Sheila’s hostel happened before that Dublin drugs conviction.

Neither man had previous convictions. Each of them pled guilty to refusing to leave the scene of a disturbance, obstructing gardaí, being threatening and abusive and being drunk and a source of danger.

Judge Olann Kelleher said he would finalise the case, which has been in court a number of times, on February 25.

The men appeared before Bandon District Court this morning.

He appeared an in camera hearing of the court for cases relating to alleged domestic violence.

The charges against each man related to St Mary’s Avenue, off Cathedral Rd, Gurranabraher, last Wednesday.

"She has 50 previous convictions for theft. Businesses have no chance of surviving in the face of this."

It was alleged that the injured party was struck with the blunt and sharp end of the hatchet, Det Garda Durcan said.

 A third man arrested on Wednesday remained detained last night. 

An 80-year-old Cork man has signed a plea of guilty to carrying out an indecent assault on a girl in the early 1980s. The case was before Cork District Court.

The 49-year-old is charged with threatening to kill a man on December 28 last at the Weatherspoon’s outlet, The Linen Weaver on Paul Street, Cork.

The man has been convicted of having them for an unlawful purpose and jailed for six months.

The charges relate to Monday, January 17.

"He called her a whore and threatened he would get the whole lot of them (the family)." 

Garda Lorna Healy objected to bail being granted to the accused man and said there were garda concerns that he would commit similar offences if allowed out on bail.

Detective Garda John O’Donovan said that, when the accused was first charged, he advised him that he should get a solicitor. However, the defendant insisted he did not want a solicitor.

Sergeant Pat Lyons said directions had not yet been obtained from the Director of Public Prosecutions.

“Ultimately, he was stopped by the armed support unit.”

The Court of Appeal ruled that it was satisfied that in all circumstances trial judge’s rulings had been “unimpeachable”.

The judge noted that the victim could not remember a time in her childhood when she was not being sexually abused by her brother, John Paul Hegarty.

Babbington had 103 previous convictions, including two for theft.

The judge noted that the victim could not remember a time in her childhood when she was not being sexually abused by her brother.

The garda also had to deploy pepper-spray on the occasion. 

He is charged with heroin possession and having the drugs for sale or supply.

A judge has asked the woman to apologise to the staff member she abused as a 'blondie prostitute'. 

Another woman, who was also a patient in the hospital at that time, pleaded guilty to the theft. 

Judge Olann Kelleher sentenced her to four months in prison when she appeared at Cork District Court by video link from prison.

The man had convictions for stealing a range of items including Manuka honey and clothing. 

The man appeared in Cork District Court today by video link from prison.

“This is a very serious offence and the weight of evidence against them is strong.” 

The men had been caught in a truck loaded with weapons. 

The charge relates to the investigation of an alleged threat to British police that a female Labour MP would be killed.

A book of evidence was served on a 56-year-old man accused of burgling a pub in Cork city. David Cronin of Deerpark House, Friars Walk, Cork, is charged with burglary at O’Sho on Barrack Street, Cork, on June 28 2021.

The man's solicitor said he had arranged through a family member to put €70 together to compensate for the theft he committed.

Sgt Lyons said that ten sample charges were brought against the accused man on the basis of 128 incidents of alleged fraud while employed with Eir in Ballincollig.

The defendant faces drugs charges, including the cultivation of cannabis and having the illegal drug for the purpose of sale or supply to others.