A teenager who caused a ruckus at a hospital was given an option of doing community service instead of going to jail. But declaring “f*** that”, he said he would not do community work.

A father who slapped his two-year-old daughter in a Cork supermarket - causing such concern that two witnesses reported him to gardaí - was convicted and fined a total of €700 today.

A young man accused of kicking in his mother’s front door and assault causing harm to her at Christmas argued through his solicitor yesterday that the charges should be struck out because she had died on Monday night.

The Garda control room in Cork was contacted by a 999 caller three times in one night threatening to shoot gardaí in the head for seizing his car and to petrol-bomb Gurranabraher Garda Station.

“This is not an idle threat. It will happen.”