Presentation Brothers College eased their way into the quarter-finals of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Junior Cup with a decisive win over Castletroy College at Musgrave Park.

Team Éamon Bowen (Éamon Bowen, Michael Barry and Denis Murphy) won the first big prize of 2018 when they beat Team Joseph Murphy (Joseph Murphy, Denis Connolly, Celly Spillane) in the John O’Donovan Cup final at Bottlehill on New Year’s Day.

A man who was caught stealing freshly delivered beer kegs from outside two public houses and loading them into a van wanted his curfew lifted for the weekend to pursue plans of a romantic nature.

A Dublin raider who visited Cork to carry out an armed robbery at a gaming arcade was jailed for seven years today.