A Chinese national shouted insults in Mandarin at gardaí in Cork but one of the gardaí was also Chinese and was able to provide a translation in Cork District Court of the verbal abuse.

AN 18-year-old student who had to repeat the Leaving Cert after his 16-year-old brother died in a drowning tragedy at Parteen, near Limerick city, was “over the moon” when he opened up his results yesterday.