A motorist who crashed into a car and a bus and then drove away from the scene blamed the collision on a canister of lawnmower petrol bursting into flames inside his car.

Hurling “awful” insults to gardaí resulted in a Mallow woman getting a suspended jail term.

The name of the terrorist organisation Isis was invoked by an Algerian man who threatened a nurse in a Cork hospital that he would cut her throat and cut off her head.

A young man who denied threatening to slice up a young woman’s face and rip her in two was released from jail yesterday despite objections from gardaí.

A Limerick man went on a bit a crime spree, stealing property from eight cars and driving away in another car.

A farmer charged with 23 counts relating to alleged animal cruelty at his farm in Cork two years ago yesterday indicated he would be denying the charges.

Five young men were arrested and charged yesterday with engaging in violent disorder at Skehard Rd in Cork just over a year ago.

A teenager appeared at Cork District Court yesterday accused of spraying insulting comments about a garda in graffiti on four different schools in the Blarney area, leaving them with a total bill of €1,200 to remove the paint.

A 79-year-old priest who got a suspended jail term last month for sexually assaulting a girl throughout her First Confession in West Cork pleaded guilty yesterday to carrying out similar assaults on three other girls in the mid-1970s.

A hospital patient filmed a nurse on his phone and then threatened to follow her home on a night where he “lost the plot” and assaulted security staff by spraying a fire extinguisher at them.

A Polish woman attending Mass in Cork came to the assistance of an 80-year-old man who was attacked by a heroin addict smashing a collection box, it was claimed yesterday.

An extremely drunken man got into a very violent fight with his brother — knocking him unconscious — and when gardaí arrived at the house to restore order he sprayed a can of deodorant into an officer’s eyes.

A book of evidence was served yesterday on a man accused of taking a saucepan of hot burning liquid from the hob in a kitchen and throwing it over the owner of a house during an aggravated burglary, at Christmas 2016.

A homeless man accused of attempted robbery this week claimed yesterday he was only trying to get back €120 that had been robbed from him.

Five Romanian nationals were brought before Cork District Court yesterday to face begging charges as the judge warned any repeat offences could end in jail.

A man who was arrested as part of the investigation of a burglary nine years ago where jewellery was stolen came to court yesterday to apply for the return of his own bracelet from gardaí, saying it was of sentimental value.

A 15-year-old headbutted the next door neighbour because of insults to his mother and the egging of their car in a dispute which allegedly included the “murder” of a cat.

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

A Corkman claimed two gardaí threw him down the front steps of the Bridewell Garda Station but CCTV showed one guard holding the front door and advising him to be careful of the steps.

A wheelchair-bound woman in her 80s was the victim of an attempted street robbery it Cork city, it was claimed yesterday at Cork District Court.

A judge and jury will hear the case against a 71-year-old man charged with impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death.

A man is due in court this morning charged in connection with the shooting of a young woman in Cork at the weekend.