A pint of Beamish stout is sometimes a cure for an injury on the northside of Cork City rather than a trip to hospital, a trial judge joked yesterday during a case.

A woman and her mother claimed they were defamed at a shop when they bought a rocking horse for a child.

A pregnant mother of one had to hobble to her parents’ home in Cork with a broken leg, a head wound, and a broken arm after a 45-minute attack by her drunk partner.

MICHAEL “Danser” Ahern was an infrequent visitors to his family home on the Northside of Cork city.