Mr Blair, whose funeral took place in Bandon last Sunday, was a second-year Chemical Engineering student at Cork Institute of Technology.

A man waiting for a bus at Cork’s main bus station was approached by a stranger who engaged him in conversation before robbing him of €270 on threat of sticking a knife in him.

An amateur boxer was convicted of assaulting his ex wife when he called to pick up their child as part of an access arrangement.

A payment of €400 to the Garda Benevolent Fund could have spared a 41-year-old man his first conviction for assaulting gardaí but it emerged yesterday in court the money was never paid.

A 38-year-old man who got into rehabilitation and managed to stay off drugs such as cocaine for a year fell back into addiction when he suffered a severe ankle fracture and was prescribed codeine.

A 62-year-old man accused of harassing a woman in her 40s was brought before Cork District Court yesterday.

A man begging on the street was caught with a knife down in his pants but he claimed the only reason he carried it was that he was sick of people taking the cup he used for begging.

A drunken man threw his mobile phone on the ground in anger and shouted abuse at people who walked past him in the Bishopstown area of Cork was yesterday jailed for two months.

A man who claimed that a clamper’s van struck him after a clamp was put on his wife’s car has been convicted of making a false complaint to gardaí.

The unusual theft of nine hares from a coursing club resulted yesterday in a young man avoiding a conviction for taking them.

A 68-year-old man who was upset about the noise of ball- playing outside his house denied folding back a tea-towel to reveal two steak knives and saying to his neighbour: “Let’s sort this out for once and for all.”

Youths driving scrambler motorcycles on footpaths and green areas have become a serious issue for gardaí on the northside of Cork City.

A missionary nun driving near Carrigaline, Co Cork, on a Sunday morning was strongly of the view that a car slammed on the brakes deliberately and without warning in order to force her to crash into the back of it.

A teenager spat at paramedics bringing him to hospital in an ambulance and continued to shout abuse at them in hospital within earshot of other patients at the accident and emergency unit.

The story of nine hares will be filed in the unusual crimes department and the young man who stole them had penalty in his case put back for four months.

A “highly intelligent” Russian man entered Garda headquarters in Cork as a trespasser and went on a walkabout on the first, second, and third floors.

A Nightline delivery service courier admitted stealing three mobile phones that were being posted to customers.

Three Dublin men “beat the lard out of a taxi driver” and yesterday the sentencing judge said they could not avoid a conviction even though they were never in trouble before.

Gardaí are hunting for a lone raider who fled empty-handed after an attempted armed robbery at a post office in Cork.

A Portuguese national’s random act of drunkenness saw him climbing up on the roof of a taxi where he jumped up and down causing €2,670 in damage to the car.

A man came out of a six-week coma in hospital and stole cash and a phone belonging to one of the doctors.

A Lithuanian man spat a few deals of heroin into a drain in an effort to frustrate a garda drugs search.

A Chinese woman was seen by a garda chasing a fellow national down Cornmarket St in Cork City and then head on the ground.

One of four people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine extraction laboratory has been granted bail.

Two women enjoying the Cork Jazz Festival on MacCurtain St had the upset of having their handbags containing mobile phones and cash stolen from them.

Bail was refused yesterday for a man who allegedly threatened a young woman he would hang her and petrol-bomb her home.

A book of evidence has been served on a 44-year-old man accused of murdering a mother of three in Cork City last March.

A young man caught with a stun gun and an air pistol during a search of his home claimed he had the pistol for shooting cans in his garden and the stun gun as an ornament.

A hotel supervisor was punched in the mouth by a man who took exception to the bar being closed at a family party and yesterday the culprit pleaded with the judge not to jail him.

A Lithuanian man hid upstairs in a bathroom at his house after his wife complained to gardaí that he had assaulted her.

A man has pleaded guilty to an attempted sexual assault after a 13-year-old girl visiting a Cork library was hugged and kissed on the cheek by a stranger.

A man wearing his pyjamas ran out of his house in the early hours of the morning and sprayed a neighbour in the eyes with Yves Saint Laurent perfume.

One word followed another at a pub in Cork City until a man punched the other in the face, breaking his nose.

A care worker in a centre for troubled teenagers on the outskirts of Cork City was threatened that she would be thrown down a stairs by one of the residents.

Gardaí had to wrestle with a teenager on the couch of his family home when he became aggressive and obstructive towards them while wielding a glass ashtray.

A man slapped his former partner across the legs during an incident at her home and, in another, refused to calm down at the house for gardaí and had to be pepper-sprayed.

A fishy excuse for having a knife in suspicious circumstances failed to get a man off the hook yesterday and he was ordered to do 200 hours of community service.

A man who spat at a couple walking through Cork City said he was baptising them, and yesterday the judge said he needed care rather than custody .

A 29-year-old Corkman charged with discharging a firearm, arising out of an investigation into a young woman being shot in the neck 10 days ago, yesterday said he was seeking bail.

Gardaí objected to bail being granted yesterday to a 22-year-old man accused of threatening to kill a 14-year-old boy in Cork.

A 76-year-old retired primary school teacher was arrested yesterday and charged with sexually assaulting a nine-year-old schoolboy eight times in the early 1990s.

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 woman who accompanied her 16-year-old son to a juvenile court yesterday broke down in tears and pointed to him saying: “This blackguard is assaulting me in my own home”.

A 16-year-old pleaded with a Children’s Court judge yesterday to jail him so that he or someone else would not end up dead.

Sparks were seen coming from the front wheel of a car in the early hours of the morning as it swerved from side to side — and the driver was so drunk that she literally fell out the door of the car onto the side of the road.