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 drunken man let fly with a large axe causing extensive damage to a patrol car parked outside a Garda station.

A patron at Rearden’s nightclub who was put out and tried to get back in again ended up punching one of the security men in the face.

A taxi driver was elbowed in the face by a passenger who also grabbed the steering wheel at one stage during the incident, in an effort to stop the taxi.

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 man out walking dogs was attacked from behind by his partner’s ex-boyfriend, who warned him to stay away from her.

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.

A young man caught with a stun gun and an air pistol during a search of his home claimed he had the pistol for shooting cans in his garden and the stun gun as an ornament.

A young man who was caught drink driving only chanced driving in response to a late-night call from a friend who was threatening to jump off a bridge.

A Lithuanian man hid upstairs in a bathroom at his house after his wife complained to gardaí that he had assaulted her.

A man has pleaded guilty to an attempted sexual assault after a 13-year-old girl visiting a Cork library was hugged and kissed on the cheek by a stranger.

A woman who admitted setting fire to two cars in Cork in March last year was put on probation bond for 12 months yesterday.

A man robbed a taxi driver’s phone and tried to sell it to another taxi driver the next day — but, of all the drivers in Cork, he tried to sell it to the victim’s brother.

A man dismantling a ceiling in a warehouse died after he sustained injuries when the platform he was working on fell to the floor.

Cork City Council and community gardaí from Mayfield applied for excluding orders that would effectively ban named youths — one as young as 12 — from roaming through housing estates in the Mayfield area of the city.

A Kerryman who was “off his head” tried to barge his way past a Cork householder in the early hours of the morning in the mistaken belief that he was at someone else’s house, writes Liam Heylin of the Irish Examiner.

A €500 fine has been imposed on a 73-year-old man who indecently assaulted his teenage daughter over 31 years ago on a big night of the TV series Glenroe — the marriage of Biddy and Miley.

A Kerryman who was “off his head” tried to barge his way past a Cork householder in the early hours of the morning in the mistaken belief that he was at someone else’s house.

A Parisian has pleaded guilty to assaulting a French colleague, grabbing her around the throat, in a bedroom, on the night of her farewell party in Cork.

A children’s play centre in Cork was the scene for a row over breastfeeding.

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

A house where the dead body of a young man was found in January was described by residents yesterday as “a den of iniquity” as Cork City Council applied to evict the tenant and regain possession.

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 district court judge yesterday gave parties concerned with the running of a residential home for 39 vulnerable people in Cork 24 hours to come up with a plan for its future.

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 man wearing his pyjamas ran out of his house in the early hours of the morning and sprayed a neighbour in the eyes with Yves Saint Laurent perfume.

A 79-year-old housebound man who is confined to a wheelchair had his Visa card used without his knowledge by a neighbour who was ostensibly acting in a caring capacity.

Two fishermen were cleared yesterday of charges to bring illegal migrant workers into Ireland to work on trawlers in what the State claimed was a “calculated scam”.

THOSE of a certain age may recall watching, as children, Modern Times, a 1936 epic comedy film, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, in which his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialised world. 

A woman queuing up for a space in a disabled parking zone took photographs of a man who parked ahead of her and he grabbed her phone and threw it back into her car.

One word followed another at a pub in Cork City until a man punched the other in the face, breaking his nose.

A 58-year-old man was put on a two-year peace bond yesterday after grabbing an English visitor to Cork by the buttocks as she waited at traffic lights.

A 35-year-old man who would not take no for an answer at a city centre pub picked up a stool and smashed a front window of the premises and yesterday he was ordered to pay compensation.

A man was yesterday charged with discharging a firearm arising out of an investigation into a shooting in Cork City, in the early hours of Sunday last, where a young woman was wounded in the neck.

A 58-year-old man grabbed an English woman visitor by the buttocks as she walked along a road in Cork City, but she slapped him across the face and he ran away.

A man has been remanded in custody in relation to an 81-year-old woman, walking along Winthrop Street in Cork City centre, being the victim of a robbery.

Packing a foil-line bag with €166 worth of razor blades in a city supermarket resulted in a man being jailed for four months yesterday.

A man addicted to stealing cars is turning a corner in his life and is prepared, for the first time, to deal with his issues through the probation service.

A troubled 16-year-old who spent the last two weeks in detention in a case related to robbing phones from other youths was warned by a judge yesterday to respect his mother on his release home.

A man addicted to stealing cars faced sentencing yesterday for two more such crimes and the judge asked of the culprit with 214 convictions: “What are we going to do, short of cutting his hands off, which I wouldn’t like to do.”

Bail has been granted to a motorist accused of carrying in his car a stolen Galaxy tablet and a clawhammer allegedly for the purpose of carrying out thefts.

A mother of 15 who rarely gets out went “hell for leather” in a drunken row with another woman in Ballincollig, Co Cork, a court has heard.

THE main nightclub area in Cork city witnessed a BMW being driven away from gardaí at over 220km/h in what was described as a “Hollywood-type chase”.