Evidence against a thief for burgling an apartment in Cork included a fingerprint at the window, DNA on a Pepsi can, DNA on a cigarette, and a phone credit receipt linked to him.

Girls making their first confession were sexually abused by a priest who afterwards put his hand on their heads and said: “Your sins are forgiven.”

A 79-year-old priest who got a suspended jail term last month for sexually assaulting a girl throughout her First Confession in West Cork pleaded guilty yesterday to carrying out similar assaults on three other girls in the mid-1970s.

There have been fresh calls for new sentencing guidelines for sex offences after a priest who sexually assaulted a little girl during her First Confession was given a suspended jail term.

Two men who knocked an elderly man to the ground and robbed him of €40 were jailed yesterday.

The former home of a Lord Mayor is tiny, but it’s centrally located.

A man jailed for serious assault having stomped on his victim’s head repeatedly has had his 15-year sentence reduced to eight by the Court of Appeal.

Three men and a woman who were links in a chain of supply of a drug which caused the deaths of two young Dungarvan men in Kinsale in September 2012 were remanded in custody until tomorrow for sentence.

Three men and a woman pleaded guilty yesterday to dealing in a synthetic drug similar to ecstasy in Cork City in September 2012.