Chinatown comes to Cork tonight as a huge fire-breathing dragon and more than 350 ghouls and zombies take over one of the city’s most historic areas.

A cocaine addict serving a five-year sentence after being caught handing over €70,000 to a criminal colleague in May 2006 has forfeited €11,450 cash found on his person in separate incident earlier that year to the State.

Former soccer international Martin Lawlor appealed for leniency at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court for a man caught transporting cocaine after he fell into drug addiction following the suicide of his best friend.