A Dublin motorist who crashed an Audi car over the side of a skew bridge in Cork on to railway tracks below later said to a garda: “You know I am drunk — I am langers.”

Barry’s Tea has formally withdrawn its local sponsorship of an annual greyhound race in the wake of last week’s RTÉ Investigates documentary on the sport in Ireland.

The seventh annual running of one of the world’s richest juvenile greyhound races, the Con & Annie Kirby Memorial Stake, was launched at Limerick Greyhound Stadium yesterday.

A 64-year-old woman failed yesterday in her appeal against public order convictions as the judge said he did not believe her version of events.

A member of An Garda Síochána yesterday successfully appealed a conviction on a charge of assault causing harm to his ex-girlfriend.

Thirst should be easily quenched in the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh, which is due to open to GAA fans next week.

A 43-year-old woman sat beside a widower twice her age on a bench at a graveyard and later called to his house blackmailing him to pay her €200 every fortnight claiming he had kissed her.

A Kerryman pointed a .22 rifle at a man having a sandwich outside his workplace in Cork and later joked about the fright he caused him.

Three men who were involved in a notorious sulky race involving two horse-drawn sulkies and a fleet of cars applied yesterday to be allowed back on the road before the end of their five-year driving bans.

A man caught with €2,000 worth of cocaine in a jacket appealed a jail sentence on the basis he had snatched the jacket in a burglary and did not know the drugs were there.

An appeal court judge suggested banning a Cork man from watching Conor McGregor fights on telly as he appeared to get over-excited.

Fifteen private solicitors’ practices received fees in excess of €200,000 last year for carrying out work on behalf of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

A Co Cork man threatened to carry a shotgun on the city’s MacCurtain St in an attempt to get himself killed by drawing the fire of armed gardaí. He was remanded in custody.

A drunk man drinking a can of beer broke a bottle of wine he took from a shelf in a service station and then punched a member of staff in the face when he was asked to leave.

A circuit court judge said yesterday he had never come across a more arrogant witness than the 33-year-old cyclist appealing a case where gardaí had to handcuff him when a row about his cycling escalated so badly.

A bearded 39-year-old man was in court yesterday to appeal two concurrent four-month jail sentences for the theft of items including dresses and perfume. The Circuit Court judge in the case said the man appeared to be targeting women’s clothing and asked: “Has he a problem?”

An Angolan national who got refugee status to live in Ireland went on to claim over €50,000 in social welfare to which he was not entitled because he was working.

The Health & Safety Authority brought a case through the Director of Public Prosecutions against University College Cork and a workman yesterday, arising out of a fatal accident on campus where a member of the college’s governing body died while working near a cherry-picker machine two years ago.

A shaggy dog story about a grenade found by gardaí in a shoe box in a bedroom saw a man blaming his jack russell for finding it and dragging it in from the garden.

Water charges protester Diarmaid Ó Cadhla, of The People’s Convention, was convicted and fined €300 at Cork District Court yesterday for failing to file a document related to electoral donations with the Standards in Public Office Commission after the 2011 general election.

Private solicitors working for the Director of Public Prosecutions were paid almost €6.5m last year.

The loss of revenue to the State caused by cigarette smuggling was a serious matter and the message had to go out that courts could not tolerate such crimes.

A 16-year-old girl who attacked two care workers looking after her at a HSE residential facility in Cork yesterday appealed against a three-month sentence of detention.

Two gardaí who were accused of assaulting a teenager with pepper spray following his arrest in Cork City have been cleared after the charges were withdrawn yesterday.

An accountant sacked by a national sporting organisation was “collateral damage” and “the jam in the sandwich” in a row between the club’s current president and other executive members, a tribunal has heard.

Two members of An Garda Síochána appeared in Cork District Court yesterday charged with assault causing harm to a 16-year-old boy.

An auditor has told a tribunal how he was “appalled” when he realised that a fellow accountant was involved in falsifying the accounts of the Irish Coursing Club.

An accountant with the Irish Coursing Club was fired for involvement in a “cover-up” which allowed a former club CEO to spend funds on his own “personal lifestyle”, the Employment Appeals Tribunal has heard.

A judge has found that leading criminal lawyer John Devane had assaulted solicitor John Herbert at Limerick District Court.

A judge has ordered the confiscation of a herd of donkeys from a farmer who was convicted of animal cruelty yesterday.

FOR the ten victims who have made Garda complaints about the horrific abuse they endured at the hands of ‘Father B’ in Cloyne, Co Cork, the expected publication later this year of the Dublin Archdiocese report is certainly another important milestone in their hard-fought battle for justice.

A DENTIST who opened all the buttons on his assistant’s tunic to check the quality of the material had his indecent assault conviction dismissed on appeal yesterday.

ONE of the biggest GAA club developments in the country — which was part-funded by a local property tycoon — is nearing completion in north Cork.

MALLOW made a very good case to secure a Government department in the upcoming decentralisation plan due to be revealed before the end of July, Tánaiste Mary Harney said yesterday.

MALLOW’s designation as a hub town is likely to have a significant effect on boosting its population.

A FATHER whose six-year-old son died in a fall on a building site welcomed a District Court judge's decision to move the case to a higher court because the maximum fine he could impose on the builders was only €1,900.