A man annoyed because he had to push his child’s buggy onto the road due to a number of parked cars on the footpath later returned with a screwdriver and damaged 27 vehicles.
Fri, 19 Jul, 2019
A judge has said he will have little option but to release a man likely to be found not guilty by reason of insanity unless state services can provide the acute in-patient mental health care he needs.
Thu, 11 Jul, 2019
The solicitor for Tansanqa Radise told a judge that his client could not get a bed at the HSE's Carraig Mór centre in Cork because he had an address in Dublin.
Mon, 08 Jul, 2019
The former Labour Senator has denied driving under the influence and said he did not provide a breath sample as the correct sections of the law were not read out to him.
Fri, 05 Jul, 2019
A man in custody for an alleged assault on a pensioner has received two new charges arising out of the same incident and offered apologies when they were put to him by gardaí.
Wed, 03 Jul, 2019
A woman who admitted pushing a 92-year-old woman with dementia by the forehead back into her chair at a nursing home has escaped a conviction for assault.
Fri, 03 May, 2019
A woman with 151 previous convictions has been jailed for five months after she stole €900 from a “shy, introverted” man she had befriended on a bus.
Mon, 12 Mar, 2018
A man has been sent forward for trial, on a plea of guilty, for trying to escape garda custody in a courthouse, and on a charge of assault, relating to the same incident.
Sat, 17 Feb, 2018
A vet who gave a woman the wrong ashes after charging her €200 for cremating her pet dog has been cleared of trying to obtain money by deception.
Sat, 08 Apr, 2017
Thu, 08 Dec, 2016
A district court judge has criticised the system of sending fines to motorists as “a national scandal”, that needs to be addressed to prevent wasting the courts’ time.
Thu, 06 Oct, 2016
Thu, 08 Sep, 2016
A Cork hunting club has been ordered to pay €4,000 in compensation to a farmer after an incident in which its dogs distressed a number of his cattle, which in turn caused at least one of the bulls to be “physically unable to procreate”.
Tue, 12 Jul, 2016
A case in which two Romanian pleaded guilty to stealing €600 worth of perfume and aftershave from a pharmacy in Macroom has been referred to a later court date for sentencing.
Fri, 21 Aug, 2015
A Polish man has been remanded on bail after being charged in connection with one of the largest seizures of cannabis in the south of the country so far this year.
Thu, 16 Apr, 2015
Limerick bananas with spider eggs attached, the Sinn Féin MEP convicted of speeding, an insight into Roy Keane's management style, a maths quiz and a new Ed Sheeran song. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this lunchtime
Thu, 02 Apr, 2015
A Sinn Féin MEP was yesterday convicted and fined for speeding.
A motorist’s prosecution for holding a mobile phone while driving is set to go to the High Court after his attempt to pay his fine prior to receiving a court summons was rejected because he did not sign his middle name when replying to the notice.
Sat, 07 Mar, 2015
A former solicitor has been remanded on bail having been charged with arson relating to a fire at a pub and solicitor’s office in Macroom, Co Cork, and theft and fraud offences.
Thu, 05 Mar, 2015
A judge has criticised the process used by gardaí to issue speeding fines as "bureaucracy gone mad" and said that district courts have unfairly been targeted for criticism by a government minister for "systemic failures".
Thu, 17 Jul, 2014
A senior garda responsible for processing speeding fines is to appear before a Cork judge to explain why a retired teacher’s attempts to pay a fine had been "frustrated by bureaucracy".
Thu, 19 Jun, 2014
When GAA Director General Páraic Duffy wrote in his annual report that the biting incident during Donegal and Dublin’s league game in April was one of the year’s lows he could not have anticipated the reaction that was to follow.
Fri, 24 Jan, 2014
The GAA has warned its players the law of the land applies everywhere — including on the field of play.
Fri, 17 Jan, 2014
A hill farmer who ambushed and assaulted a neighbour on a remote road near the Cork-Kerry mountains was yesterday jailed for 12 months.
Fri, 20 Sep, 2013
A 44-year-old plumber has been charged with the manslaughter of a woman who died from acute carbon monoxide poisoning at a Co Cork hotel on Jan 9, 2011.
Thu, 06 Jun, 2013
A sheep thief was caught red handed at a mart in Kerry after a lamb he was trying to sell spotted his owner in the crowd and ran to him.
Sat, 11 May, 2013
A 31-year-old Lithuanian man was last night charged at a special court in Bandon, Co Cork, with cultivation of cannabis.
Fri, 26 Apr, 2013
A town councillor has been fined €500 after being convicted of falsely claiming expenses for a conference he did not attend.
Thu, 17 Jan, 2013
A former Fianna Fáil councillor has been charged with deception in relation to the claiming of conference expenses.
Thu, 20 Dec, 2012
A man and woman facing double murder charges after two bodies were recovered from a West Cork river have been returned for trial.
Thu, 05 Apr, 2012
Serious questions are raised by today’s Irish Examiner investigation into misuse of taxpayers’ money and lack of normal procedures at a State-funded Youthreach programme.
Mon, 06 Feb, 2012
A GARAGE owner was duped into selling a car to a man who made a phone-call pretending to be from a bank confirming the price of the car had been lodged in the vendor’s account.
Sat, 03 Dec, 2011
Three men have been arrested in Co. Cork in connection with the death of a 65-year-old farmer last year.
Tue, 17 Nov, 2009
A TURKISH barber was charged yesterday with the murder of his ex-partner and mother of his child in West Cork last week.
Thu, 19 Apr, 2007
THE mother of a four-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by a 16-year-old said her daughter and family would have to wait up to 30 weeks before they received counselling, yet, the defendant received therapy immediately.
Thu, 26 May, 2005
A prisoner, who escaped while being escorted by prison authorities to Cork prison last week, has been taken back into custody by Gardai.
Sat, 12 Jan, 2002
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