A foreign student was robbed after being led down a lane way by a woman she had stopped to ask directions from, a court has heard.

Gardaí have urged greater parental responsibility after emergency medics made reference on Twitter to teenagers having a “drug-fuelled night out” in Clonakilty, Co Cork, “using up valuable emergency services resources”.

A Garda was served with a book of evidence on two theft charges yesterday.

“Scandalous” was how the corrupt actions of a member of An Garda Síochána were described by a judge as a fully suspended two-year sentence was imposed.

Gardaí have said they expect to have a book of evidence completed by next month in relation to an alleged cocaine extraction laboratory in Bantry in West Cork.

“I have only him. He is my everything. Now he is a different person.”

A man who was already the subject of two separate driving bans was caught driving his son home from national school while over the drink-driving limit.

A date was set yesterday for the trial, by judge and jury, of a member of An Garda Síochána facing 212 charges related to alleged deception, theft, and receiving corrupt payments.

A man accused of raping a 12-year-old boy nine times was described by gardaí as posing a risk to young people and they objected to him getting bail at Cork District Court yesterday.

A 72-year-old man on trial for impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death was cleared of the charge yesterday.

An 84-year-old Co Cork motorist collided with a woman cycling to work, causing her very serious injuries.

A 72-year-old man has denied a charge of impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death.

A man with an online gambling addiction sought to cover debts by shortchanging his employer while working in the bar of one of the country’s best-known hotels.

A murder trial has heard that a man, whose body was found in the River Bandon, died due to ligature strangulation.

A member of An Garda Síochána facing 212 charges related to alleged deception, theft and receiving corrupt payments appeared before Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

A judge and jury will hear the case against a 71-year-old man charged with impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death.

A garda was arrested yesterday for questioning and charged with 212 counts related to alleged deception, theft and receiving corrupt payments.

The garda file in the case against a man charged with impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death is complex and runs to 10 volumes, it emerged yesterday.

A 71-year-old man from Newmarket was arrested yesterday and charged with impeding the prosecution of his son on a charge of dangerous driving causing death.

A man armed with a 4ft-long stick was jailed for four months for taking the law into his own hands and causing an injury to garda by resisting arrest.

The DPP directed yesterday that a judge and jury will hear the case against a Cork man charged with discharging a firearm arising out of the investigation of a young woman being shot in the neck.

A 46-year-old Cork man dropped his pants and exposed his buttocks to gardaí in full view of a group of Spanish students in Cork city centre, writes Liam Heylin.

A woman received a text from her ex-husband saying “you will regret everything” after she arrived home from a Christmas night out, writes Liam Heylin.

A woman received a text from her ex-husband saying “you will regret everything” after she arrived home from a Christmas night out.

One of the most troublesome teenagers ever detained at Oberstown centre in Dublin was sentenced to nine months in detention there yesterday for carrying a knife in Cork, but he was released on bail pending an appeal.

A middle-aged man who denied calling a member of An Garda Síochána a “fucking bollocks” recalled the incident yesterday as the garda in the patrol car taunting him.

A woman claimed she was put in fear by her ex-husband when he arrived at her home at night and allegedly smashed the wing mirror off her car with an iron bar but he said through his solicitor that this was “all lies”.

A drink driver with heroin and cocaine in his pocket tried to walk away from gardaí but when one officer caught and handcuffed him on the ground the culprit shouted: “I know where you live. I will get you.”

‘Quartermaster’ for international drug gang had €380,000 in cash distributed around his house

Public order disturbances are much worse when they occur in hospitals where vulnerable people are caused more distress, a district judge said yesterday.

A garda entered a building after she observed blood on the floors and walls, a smashed pane of glass in the front door and feared for the safety of those inside.

An aggressive man who taunted a guard to “go on and arrest me” and then took off on a lap around a block in Cork city centre got his wish when the guard knocked him to the ground and arrested him.

A 47-year-old man ate a lump of cannabis rather than hand it over to gardaí. Garda Patrick O’Sullivan testified yesterday the gardaí could see the black bits of cannabis resin on the suspect’s teeth when they were talking to him at the scene.

Only 4% of offenders convicted of large-scale drug dealing get the mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years. Many get suspended sentences.

A drug addict couple attacked and robbed a woman on the Luas in front of passengers who failed to intervene, a court has heard.

Three Englishmen who ran out of food at sea on a €300m cocaine smuggling operation were so desperate one of them began to consume the drug to stave off hunger.

A judge said one would want to be “blind, deaf, and dumb” not to conclude that texts to and from a man in Dunmanway, Co Cork, were evidence of drug dealing.

A brainstorming session by representatives from seven nations 7 years ago was key to Wednesday’s €80m cocaine bust, writes Sean O’Riordan

The West Cork coastline has long been a favourite drop-off point for drugs traffickers as they’ve seen it as an easy ‘back-door route’ into Britain.

A professional gambler from Leitrim who head-butted a garda attempting to protect him has been given a partly suspended sentence.

Ciprian Grozavu strangled a happy-go-lucky Englishman in a flat in Bandon using a homemade ligature while Catherine O’Connor stabbed him repeatedly in the face with two jagged ends of a broken Manchester United mug.