Cork Marts has been convicted and fined for using unauthorised animal remedies on cattle after it was supplied with drugs as part of a deal with a Spanish company.

A man who has been charged with a knife attack on his partner which left her with 14 wounds has been remanded in custody until his next court appearance on September 3.

A 22-year-old father of seven and his 46-year-old father of 16 were among five people charged in district court yesterday in relation to an incident that saw a garda hospitalised with a serious head wound and another injured.

A creche owner has been fined for refusing to allow HSE officials carry out an inspection of her premises.

More than 1,000 drivers have avoided a conviction and penalty points on their driving licence so far this year because they made a donation to a court poor box.

Five Chinese men have been remanded in custody in connection with a garda raid on a cannabis growhouse in North Cork last Monday.

A man who claimed a neighbour of his parents came into their garden and attacked him with a hurley, told a judge “it was like something out of Braveheart”.

A MAN who accidentally knocked his wife down with his car while drunk is already serving a “sentence”, a court has heard.

A WOMAN who pleaded guilty to keeping a brothel has received a €500 fine at a district court.

A NIGERIAN woman charged with brothel keeping has been remanded in custody.

JUDGE Michael Pattwell, who sits for the last time today after 21 years on the bench, said he felt “honoured to be part of the system that puts people’s rights to the forefront”.

A FARMER was given a 10-month jail sentence for the “callous and cruel” treatment of his cattle which were not fed or cared for properly.

AN intoxicated man who reversed his van into a patrol car on two separate occasions while being pursued by gardaí and who swung a hammer at them has been sentenced to two years in prison.

Gardaí in North Cork have launched an investigation after a garda's private car was damaged in an arson attack while he was working.

A 28-year-old man has appeared before Midleton District Court charged in connection with a fatal crash in east Cork last year.

A DECISION is expected shortly from the DPP on a request by gardaí for a judicial review of a judge’s decision to hold a garda inspector in contempt.

A KNOWN drug user who was before a Cork court and facing a jail term packed a few essentials for the trip - parcels of heroin under his foreskin, and a mobile phone, a SIM card and a charger up his rectum.

IN his annual report published yesterday, Paul Appleby, the Director of the Office of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE), emphasised the need to improve the overall standard of corporate conduct.

Wayne O’Donoghue has been in custody there since a year ago last week, except during his trial last month.

ALMOST 2,000 lines of inquiry have been followed into the death of Robert Holohan, 11, a court heard yesterday. Gardaí have received more time to prepare a book of evidence against a man charged with his manslaughter because of the enormity of the investigation.

Seán O’Riordan

A 20-YEAR-OLD engineering student charged with the manslaughter of schoolboy Robert Holohan has been remanded in custody to appear in court again on February 3.

The man charged with the manslaughter of Robert Holohan has been remanded in custody for another two weeks.

A STUDENT appeared in court last night charged with the manslaughter of Midleton schoolboy Robert Holohan.

A 20-year-old man is expected to be charged before a sitting of Midleton District Court within an hour in connection with the killing of Robert Holohan.

TIM ALLEN, husband of celebrity chef Darina Allen, walked free from a court yesterday after pleading guilty to possessing obnoxious images of naked children.

The chef husband of one of Ireland’s best-known TV cookery show presenters was today given a conditional nine-month suspended jail sentence for possessing up to 1,000 computer images of children, some as young as five.

A father and son have appeared in court in Co Cork again today in connection with an attack which left a Garda hospitalized with multiple injuries.