A woman facing sentencing for shoplifting went ‘robbing’ again during a lunchbreak in court and the sentencing judge said her offending was almost frightening.

A Cork man had to call the gardaí because he was put in fear by his own son — and yesterday the culprit was jailed for three months.

A young Waterford man who was led astray by a woman he met when out drinking in Cork City broke into a house at The Lough when she told him it was her home.

A protester used his skateboard to smash windows at the pub-restaurant Electric premises on South Mall in Cork in an action which his solicitor said yesterday was misguided, but the sentencing judge described it as anarchic.