Gardaí are planning to mount targeted high-visibility evening foot and bike patrols in Cork city centre to enhance public safety.

Gardaí in Cork believe they have dismantled an organised car-theft gang which was behind a spate of incidents in the city and suburbs in recent months.

Gardaí say they are adopting a “very balanced approach” to enforcement of the controversial new time-regulated bus lanes on Cork’s St Patrick’s Street.

Three teenage female college students have been raped in Cork since the start of the university term.

The Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) has 30 targets in its sights in Cork but has asked the public for more tip-offs about people who may be living suspiciously lavish lifestyles.

Fears have been expressed about the re-emergence of so-called joyriding in Cork City after an almost 70% spike in the number of reported car thefts.

The head of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork has described a tripling in the city’s reported rape figures as a “wake-up” call.

The number of people reporting sexual assaults and rape is on the rise in Cork city, according to new figures.

Rogue landlords will face legal action if they fail to tackle tenants’ anti-social behaviour, particularly in student houses, the lord mayor of Cork has warned.

If you’re heading to Cork City for the sales, you’re most likely to get caught for illegal parking in the South Mall and Connaught Avenue/Donovan’s Rd areas.

The number of Muslims deemed to be a security risk and refused entry through Cork Airport has almost doubled in the past two months.

A special Garda unit set up in Cork City to tackle water protests has been scaled back as those involved in anti-metering demonstrations have been well- behaved.

Gardaí are planning further undercover anti-heroin operations in Cork City following Operation Emerson which led to the recent arrest of 23 street dealers.

Nearly 90 people have died from heroin and other opiates in Cork City in the past 11 years, according to coroner Myra Cullinane.

Gardaí say that they cannot tackle the heroin problem on their own, that repeatedly arresting addicts is not the solution, and that pooling resources and ideas from different agencies and the public is the only way to address the issue.

Cocaine with an estimated street value of €1.75m — which was discovered in a container in Cork — was most likely destined for the Irish market.

Refurbishing cells in a Garda station in Cork City resulted in an increase in assaults because gardaí were tied up taking prisoners to outlying stations.

GAA fans attending Cork stadium Páirc Uí Rinn have been urged to park responsibly after residents complained of “feeling under siege”.

A spike in muggings and pickpocketing in Cork City last summer was primarily due to heroin addicts trying to feed their habit.

Two men, arrested after a high-speed pursuit during which a garda was injured, have been remanded in custody after being charged with theft and a range of road traffic offences.

Cork City Council has been asked to revoke casual trading licences to anyone caught selling smuggled cigarettes.

The dwindling number of gardaí patrolling Cork City streets is at crisis point, according to the organisation representing rank-and-file members of the force.

The vast majority of 88 stray horses seized as part a multi-agency crackdown to protect motorists and pedestrians in Cork City had to be put down, mainly because their owners wouldn’t pay the fees required to release them from a pound.

A new computerised system is to be launched by gardaí in Cork as part of a radical shake-up of the force in the city and county which, it is claimed, will improve their service to the public.

People affected by the antics of drunken third-level students in Cork City have been urged to attend a special meeting next Monday.

Gardaí have said they regularly seize and test replica firearms from four shops in Cork City to see if they pose a threat to the public, but cannot confiscate them unless they are used in a robbery or to threaten.

Gardaí are preparing to send a file to the DPP after questioning 10 Travellers who took over a main road for a sulky race.

Dublin-based criminals are being blamed for a recent upsurge in burglaries targeting, in particular, suburbs on the southside of Cork city.

CORK City Council has evicted, on average, one tenant every month this year from its housing stock due to anti-social behaviour.

POLITICIANS and senior gardaí have reacted angrily to comments made by a man claiming to represent the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, who suggested on a radio show that he could help organise vigilante action against drug dealers operating in a part of Cork city.

MORE than 50% of shoplifting carried out in Cork city is being perpetrated by people under 18, a Garda crime analyst has discovered.

PLANS are being made for by-laws to combat an “epidemic of out-of-control horses” which is making many householders’ lives “a misery” in parts of Cork City.

HEROIN use has been blamed for a rise in street-level and petty crime in Cork, despite an overall reduction in crime figures.

GARDAÍ may prosecute head shop owners if it can be proved that their products, sold as legal highs, cause injury.