A seven-year jail term was suspended today in the case against a Lithuanian man on condition that he would leave Ireland by midnight tomorrow.

No prosecution evidence was offered yesterday against a member of An Garda Síochána on a charge of forging a document.

A Ballineen man has been jailed for two-and-a-half years today for an assault where the victim had his jaw broken in an attack by two men on Christmas Eve 2016 in Clonakilty.

A young man started stealing tractors and cars within four days of his release from prison where he served a sentence for stealing cars.

A stepfather was jailed for three and a half years yesterday for sexually assaulting his partner’s daughter from when she was aged 12 — getting into her bed each time with the words, “Push over, love.”

A stepfather was found guilty today of sexually assaulting his partner’s daughter three times from when she was aged 12 — getting into her bed each time with the words, “Push over, love.”

A 42-year-old man who claimed that the powdered plant derivative found at his apartment in Cork could be extracted from a cactus plant commonly bought in flower shops was found guilty of having mescaline for sale or supply.

A 42-year-old man was put on trial for possession of mescaline for sale or supply but the defence claimed that the material could be derived from a cactus bought legally at any plant shop in Cork for €35.

A former manager of Douglas Village shopping centre in Cork was jailed for four years yesterday for stealing €22,000 entrusted to him in rents from commercial tenants for the owners.

A cyclist who did everything right was killed by a motorist who turned around momentarily to tell one of her children to remove a tag from a toy they had just bought.

A social worker was found not guilty yesterday of getting monthly child support payments from a mother of five whose children were in care and did not pass these payments on to the foster carers.

A social worker got monthly child support payments from a mother of five whose children were in care and did not pass these payments on to the foster carers, it was claimed at a trial yesterday.

A plea of guilty was entered yesterday on behalf of a construction company in a case where a member of the public was fatally injured at a building site in Bandon more than two years ago.

Six women and six men took four hours to find a Corkman guilty of sexually assaulting his ex-partner’s daughter on occasions when she was only 12 to 13 years old.

A French woman who went for a walk along the bank of the River Blackwater in North Cork was sexually assaulted by a young man in a bizarre series of events.

A sentencing judge warned a teenager involved in breaking another youth’s jaw that he would want to “wakey wakey” in terms of compensation and now the accused has come up with €1,000.

A Co Galway-based secondary school teacher has launched a High Court challenge against her proposed transfer from the school she has taught at for 17 years to another school.

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

A man jailed for five years for threatening to kill French flatmates in Cork told them that terrorist attacks in France and Brussels were excellent things.

One of the biggest figures in Irish boxing signed a plea of guilty yesterday to a charge of having unstamped tobacco products for sale or delivery in Cork.

One of the best boxers ever produced in Ireland was in custody yesterday for having €8,000 worth of cigarettes and tobacco for sale at his home without payment of excise duty.

The jury in a sex assault trial took less that three hours to decide that the teenager did not carry out a sex assault on a woman in the lift of her apartment building in Cork.

A Corkman accused of robbing a man in what was described as a vicious lunchtime attack in the city denied the crime and said he was with his wife waiting for his lunch in a café.

A 16-year-old who got bail yesterday on strict conditions — including that he would take any phonecalls made to him by gardaí — said he did not want to be talking to gardaí.

A 23-year-old man who was responsible for knocking a stranger unconscious in Cork City centre was jailed for two years yesterday.

A 37-year-old who persisted in harassing his ex-partner, even when he was on bail pending sentence for the same behaviour, was jailed yesterday for three years.

An Italian couple who were victims of a violent mugging in Cork City yesterday expressed the hope that their attacker understood the suffering he had caused.

A pitiless attacker struck a 50-year-old woman repeatedly in the head with a 2ft machete as he demanded cash. The culprit was yesterday jailed for six years after the victim said he had seen her as nothing more than a walking ATM.

Innovative CIT student Vincent Forde has won two leading business awards within a week — CIT Entrepreneur of the Year 2016 and Accenture Leader of Tomorrow 2016.

A middle-aged man was put on trial yesterday charged with intimidating a witness in another trial. He was found not guilty at the end of the State evidence.

The Coast Guard has issued a warning after racing pigeons and a flare triggered a search operation in West Cork at the weekend.

An air rifle was fired at the back of a customer’s head at a pub in Buttevant by a paranoid man who thought people were talking behind his back and yesterday the culprit was jailed for two years.

An 83-year-old Christian Brother who intervened in an effort to prevent a jeweller being robbed of a gold bracelet was knocked to the floor during the crime and yesterday the accused was remanded in custody for sentencing on September 8.

A 17-year-old boy who had sex with a 15-year-old girl when they were in care in the same Cork foster home has been given nine months to earn a more lenient sentence by showing a judge he has turned his life around.

A “menace to society” will start a six-year jail term today for a violent assault on his teenage girlfriend in what the judge described as a despicable offence by a coward and a bully.

An addict who was caught with over €10,000 worth of heroin on the grounds of a derelict hospital in Cork was jailed for three years with half of it suspended yesterday.

A teenager who threatened to slit the throats of two gardaí outside a hotel shortly after getting a suspended sentence for a violent disorder was jailed yesterday as the judge said he had stretched the elastic too far.

A Cork woman who ripped off almost €60,000 in false social welfare claims and used the money mainly to buy drink, rather than cars or any luxuries, was yesterday jailed for nine months.

Mother-of-four Rachel Drumm and her estranged husband Kenneth, brother of former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm, yesterday lost the €1m home they owned together in Skerries, Co Dublin.

The man who treated himself to a Christmas holiday at the five-star Hayfield Manor and leaving without paying his bill of over €3,000 and similar offences totalling €3,000 at two other Cork hotels and a guesthouse over the holiday period last year will spend this Christmas behind bars.

An AIB official with a gambling addiction stole €15,000 and blew it on three bets and then stole over €30,000 in a desperate attempt to win back the lost money.

A man who left a city centre nightclub was jeered, punched, and kicked which left him unconscious on the ground with a broken eye socket and a broken cheekbone.

A man convicted of assaulting a garda was told by a sentencing judge "the blaggardism" had to stop.

A man ran up bills of more than €6,000 staying at fancy hotels including a five-star facility in Cork — and left without paying.

Fine Gael’s 23-year dominance on Cork County Council is at an end, with the race on to see if Fianna Fáil will do a deal with Independents and/or Sinn Féin to gain the balance of power.