A young man appealing a drugs conviction returned to court with a 200-word essay on his observations from attending four of his local district court sittings.

Two hundred boxes of cigarettes were stolen from a Cash & Carry by a man acting with three others who stashed the goods into bags and left the store to get into a car parked outside.

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.

A man with over 50 shoplifting convictions thanked a judge profusely for granting him bail yesterday and said: “We go back a long way, boy.”

An American woman who advocates for the rights of sex workers in Ireland appealed a conviction for cultivating cannabis at her flat in Cork three years ago.

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 hash brown was spat into a woman’s face by a man who verbally abused her and yesterday he denied the assault.

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.

A man armed with an axe on the grounds of a psychiatric hospital may have been planning to attempt the release of his girlfriend from a unit in the complex.

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

The skipper and owners of a fishing boat, who were convicted and fined a total of €4,000 on charges partly related to out-of-date safety equipment on a trawler, failed in their application under the Probation of Offenders Act to have the convictions dismissed.

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 woman successfully appealed a case yesterday where it was alleged that she caught a care worker by the throat because she “went ballistic” over her elderly mother being taken by taxi rather than ambulance from a nursing home to hospital.

An appallingly mean theft by a Wexford man who travelled to Cork City and stole an 82-year-old woman’s handbag resulted in him having his jail sentence increased on appeal yesterday from six to eight months.

A young woman working at a nightclub on New Year’s Eve testified yesterday that a man grabbed her bum and her breast and then smiled smugly at her.

A motorist has denied a dangerous-driving charge where a man claimed that the driver knocked him down by driving straight at him at speed.

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 had a book thrown at him in court yesterday by a disgruntled man who lost his appeal against a conviction for harassing a garda.

A 72-year-old former barrister was jailed yesterday on a charge of assault causing harm to a member of An Garda Síochána.

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?”

A 36-year-old Cork man who stole a €1,500 power-washer in Fermoy was freed from a jail sentence yesterday on his commitment to clean up his long-time alcohol problem.

A teenager whose mother, father, and brother all took their lives at different times in the family home failed in his appeal yesterday against a conviction for assaulting a man in a pub.

A judge said one would want to be “blind, deaf, and dumb” not to conclude that texts to and from a man in Dunmanway, Co Cork, were evidence of drug dealing.

"Jack the fucking Ripper" was the name a man gave to gardaí who investigated a disturbance he caused at a hospital emergency department.

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.

A darkly dressed man rambling along the middle of the road at night gave a garda a kung fu-style kick to the chest and yesterday a four-month jail sentence imposed previously was suspended after evidence that he had attended alcohol rehabilitation.

A Roma mother hoping to avoid a three-month jail sentence for stealing a religious medal and cash from an elderly churchgoer was so sorry and had such a lack of animosity towards the gardaí that she named her triplets after three gardaí in Cork.

A man admitted assaulting another man in an unprovoked attack, but totally denied assaulting a woman who came to the victim’s assistance.

Courts have to take a strong view on young men going out tooled up with weapons, as such actions had the potential to result in fatalities.

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.

A four-minute sulky race that resulted in over a year of YouTube notoriety was back in court yesterday where five of those involved had their five-month jail terms reduced by two months and their six-year driving bans cut by a year.

Doctors need to get 600 points in their Leaving Certificate so they can write letters about patients that say nothing and mean nothing, a circuit court judge has said.

A Venezuelan transsexual who was convicted as a man on a charge of helping to run a brothel arrived in the appeal court yesterday as a woman, hoping to have the case dismissed.

Five convicted drink drivers won their appeals and avoided driving bans of up to six years yesterday after prosecuting gardaí failed to turn up.

The right of gardaí to enter onto the driveway of a private house in pursuance of an investigation was challenged in a court case in Cork yesterday.

The problem of motorists using mobile phones has reached epidemic proportions, a circuit court judge said yesterday.

A MOTORIST who was being given a verbal warning about driving with a mobile phone overreacted to such an extent that it took two gardaí to hold him down and they had to call for back-up.

A POSTMAN who dumped more than 10,000 letters over a six-month period had a four-month jail sentence suspended yesterday as the appeal court judge said the man had learned his lesson.

THE traffic lane system on one of Cork’s busiest roundabouts has been described by a circuit court judge as being more mysterious than the Third Secret of Fatima.