A shotgun owner lost his firearms certificate because he failed to declare that there had been a safety order against him.

Bail was refused yesterday to a man accused of going to his uncle’s house to attack him.

A teen spat into the face of man working at a Subway sandwich outlet when he and others were told to move away from the premises.

A drunk driver sped away from gardaí narrowly missing crashes with two other cars and later jumped into the back of his car on top of his three passengers in the hope that his driving would not be detected.

An unruly teenager who spat at gardaí and bit one officer on the shoulder also dropped his pants and exposed his backside to a Garda car during a disturbance.

A man who fell through a glass coffee table during a domestic incident went on to arm himself with a hammer and lock himself into the house as gardaí gathered to restore order.

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 woman threatened to set her dogs on gardaí and she later attacked an officer by kicking him and scratching his neck with her nails until she drew blood.

A 59-year-old man was charged yesterday with having cannabis for sale or supply on Barrack St in Cork City, and is required to stay away from the street and surrounding streets as a condition of his bail.

A Corkman who had previously received a three-year suspended jail term, for mugging an 81-year-old woman, risked having to serve the sentence after burgling the home of a garda.

A 54-year-old man under court order to stay away from his ex-wife went to the canteen at her workplace and demanded she return her wedding ring to him.

A Corkman was jailed for five months yesterday for obstructing gardaí in a drugs investigation by refusing to give them his passwords for three mobile phones.

Four youths were arrested and charged over fire damage worth €250,000 to a pub in Cork.

A 33-year-old man made 60 silent phone calls to his ex-girlfriend after an acrimonious split, and yesterday the sentencing judge said the probation report on the accused was the worst he had ever seen.

Mind-boggling difficulties were predicted by a judge yesterday for the abolition from Monday of prison sentences being a default for non-payment of court fines.

A man who punched another man in the eye in Cork City centre felt so bad afterwards that he invited friends of the victim to hit him back in a misguided effort to make up for his wrongdoing.

A Corkman aged 43 was arrested at Cork Airport and charged with carrying out an armed robbery almost 19 years ago at Bandon Rd post office.

A former postmaster at Crosshaven Post Office confessed at Cork District Court yesterday to charges arising out of the theft of pension payments to pensioners using the post office.

A pensioner who had his life savings hidden in the attic of his home had €7,000 stolen from the stash by a plasterer who was doing plumbing jobs for him.

The woman who ripped open her blouse and ran towards gardaí claiming officers raped her was suffering from depression at the time as a result of a suicide and homicide involving relatives.

A second man was sent forward for trial yesterday on a charge of raping a young woman in a park in Cork in the early hours of the morning. The alleged rape took place on June 28, 2013.

A stolen car was driven at high speed though Cork suburbs in rush-hour traffic, crossing to the wrong side of the road, mounting a footpath where families were walking, and later ramming a Garda car.

A bench warrant was issued for the arrest of a young Kerry man who was granted bail to attend his mother’s funeral but failed to turn up in court yesterday.

A young Kerry man accused of drunken driving in the early hours of yesterday pleaded with a judge at Cork District Court to let him out of custody to attend his mother’s funeral.

A career criminal who confessed to a series of recent burglaries in the Moneygourney area was jailed for 13 months yesterday.

A judge has decided that charges against a man for alleged harassment via social media are too serious to be dealt with at Cork District Court.

A busker making money at 3am in Cork city centre, with up to 60 people dancing on the street around him, took exception to the gardaí dispersing the crowd.

Armed gardaí rushed to a housing estate in Douglas, Cork, where residents reported hearing gunshots.

A man who made 60 silent phonecalls to his ex-partner in Cork in a 24-hour period pleaded guilty yesterday to a harassment charge.

Two Bulgarian women travelled to Cork last week to target elderly women shopping alone in supermarkets, it was claimed in court yesterday as they were convicted of one such crime.

A man accused of repeatedly punching his wife in the face at a christening has been remanded in custody despite the fact that his victim spoke up on his behalf.

Former solicitor, financial adviser and Fianna Fáil councillor Gary O’Flynn was arrested and charged with nine fraud charges yesterday.

A seven-month suspended prison sentence and fines of €3,500 were imposed yesterday on former Minister of State Ned O’Keeffe for what the sentencing judge described as breaches of trust by a TD submitting false invoices to claim over €3,700 in mobile phone expenses.

A patient waiting on a trolley for a hospital bed had her handbag stolen when she went to the bathroom and yesterday the woman who snatched the bag was jailed for 10 months for that and other crimes.

Emergency 999 calls were made repeatedly for an hour by a Corkman who, became abusive when approached by gardaí.

An African national has spent the past 10 days in Cork Prison because details of his identity remain a mystery, but his solicitor said yesterday the man could not be kept in prison because nobody knows who he is.

A man accused of being part of a criminal gang that put a skimming device and concealed camera on an ATM has been refused bail.

A 69-year-old man banned under the Sex Offenders Act from entering school buildings was caught in the ladies changing rooms of the University of Limerick’s Sports Arena.

Gardaí with confidential information that drug-dealing was taking place from a house in Douglas, Co Cork, raided it and found cannabis with a street value of €1,200.

Expensive equipment was stolen from yachts locked up at a boatyard in Crosshaven and yesterday the culprit pleaded guilty to the crimes.

A man crossing Daunt Square in Cork City after a night out socialising was set upon by another man who kicked and punched him for no apparent reason.

A Boston policeman found himself on something of a busman’s holiday as he chased and detained a man who allegedly threw a brick at a passing car and head-butted a man working at a restaurant in Cork City.