A motorist driving through Cork City late at night feared he was about to be robbed by a man who jumped out in front of his car and banged the bonnet and shouted at him.

A Mallow man shouting racial abuse at Polish security staff in the accident and emergency staff at a hospital was jailed for two months yesterday.

The driver of an articulated truck used both hands to take photographs of a serious traffic accident as he drove past it and yesterday he was convicted of careless driving.

Gardaí expressed concern yesterday about the escalation of violence against them from a man who has been homeless in Cork for many years.

A man accused of arson admitted, during his bail application at Cork District Court yesterday, that he set fire to two cars. But he said the owners had nothing to fear from him, as he had burned the wrong vehicles.

Gardaí objected to bail being granted to a man who was arrested yesterday on a charge of threatening to kill a social worker.

Gardaí were threatened their noses would be bitten off by a man who called them “pigs”.

A young man with cocaine visible around his nose and mouth boasted that his uncle was “an All-Ireland champion solicitor” and that he would have the jobs of gardaí and security staff at a nightclub.

Two brothers got into a fight with each other outside The Cow Bar in Mayfield and one got so aggressive with the garda who arrived on the scene he had to be pepper-sprayed.

A multi-agency operation which saw the arrest of three men at a traveller site on the N25 Cork to Midleton Road near Little Island resulted in one man being brought before Cork District Court yesterday.

A murder charge has been brought against a 26-year-old man arising out of the investigation into the death of a young mother in Cork City last April.

A saucepan of hot burning liquid was taken from the hob in a kitchen and thrown over the owner of the house during an aggravated burglary, it was alleged yesterday.

A taxi driver was punched in the lip by a Moldovan man who did not have money for his fare and tried to sell the driver a €400 phone for €25.

A judge who heard days of evidence about bad blood between neighbours over a house extension said the two parties were very foolish but only one was before the court.

A patient at a hospital psychiatric unit slipped out and bought a bottle of vodka at an off-licence and then returned and caused havoc for hospital staff.

A 58-year-old man complained in court that he was sick of being a punch bag for his 22-year-old son.

An architect denied harassing neighbours when they built an extension to their home by playing music so loud it was like an earthquake, staring at them, or kicking a football repeatedly against a wall.

Two men burgled a cafe at the Imperial Hotel in Cork City and tried to force a cash register off the counter under the cover of darkness — yesterday one of the culprits got a suspended jail term.

Three young men were balanced on a small motorbike driven at speed in the direction of a Garda minibus.

An American who was down on his luck in Cork walked into a bank and passed a note to the teller saying he would set off a bomb, killing them all, if he did not get cash.

A woman was frightened for her life by a young man who tried to strangle her and also trashed her home.

A woman who refused to give a breath sample to a garda on the side of the road jumped into the back of her van and began to eat cheese and homemade pesto.

A man charged with stealing six watches guaranteed a judge it was one million percent certain he would never commit a crime again.

One of the biggest figures in Irish boxing signed a plea of guilty yesterday to a charge of having unstamped tobacco products for sale or delivery in Cork.

A 36-year-old Blarney man appeared at Cork District Court yesterday by video link from prison on charges related to a €10,000 drugs seizure by gardaí last week.

A motorist and a pizza parlour proprietor who came to the assistance of a woman on the street ended up being attacked by the man who was with her.

A young American woman who spoke on television about working in Cork as a prostitute was put on trial yesterday for having a cannabis growhouse at her city apartment.

Selfies taken by a motorist led to his prosecution on multiple counts of dangerous driving after he took off at speed from gardaí through red lights in Cork City.

A Cork woman was punched in the face and attacked by a man who then threatened to petrol-bomb her home and kill her and her two children, it was alleged yesterday.

A man with serious health difficulties had cannabis in his home. His solicitor yesterday said the drug provided relief from pain.

The Director of Public Prosecutions has directed the case against a young woman, accused of assault causing harm to a bouncer at a pub in Cork, could only be dealt with at Cork District Court on a plea of guilty.

A man was arrested in Cork and charged with carrying out a midweek robbery at a filling station in Limerick City.

A young Cork man who is inclined to forget his own name was jailed for five months yesterday for threatening a member of An Garda Síochána.

A young man accused of arson was remanded in custody and psychiatric attention was requested for him yesterday.

A priest was put in fear when a drunken man held a bottle to him and threatened him after the priest approached a group of people outside a church.

A man allegedly sent sexual images and text messages to his ex-partner via Facebook over a two-week period, breaking a previous order.

A Cork man who attacked a stranger in a case of mistaken identity and broke his nose said he was an idiot for doing what he did and that Cork people should not be judged by his actions.

Gardaí objected to bail being granted to an 19-year-old because of the extent of the violence as he allegedly put his mother in fear at the family home on Sunday.

A Good Samaritan who was concerned about a girl screaming outside his house when she was under attack from two men took a long samurai sword from over his fireplace to frighten off the woman’s attackers.