Irish Water will have to wait on a judge’s decision over whether it can proceed with plans to lay a sewage pipe through lands owned by the Duke of Devonshire and which would discharge treated waste water into Youghal Bay.

A young man who claimed that he was still in a relationship with a young woman crashed head-on into a car in which she was a front-seat passenger and now that car’s driver has been awarded €12,000 compensation.

A young man who claimed that he was still in a relationship with a young woman crashed head-on into a car in which she was a front-seat passenger and now that car’s driver has been awarded €12,000 compensation.

Three men who were involved in a notorious sulky race involving two horse-drawn sulkies and a fleet of cars applied yesterday to be allowed back on the road before the end of their five-year driving bans.

A raider passed a note to a post office teller advising no one would get hurt if money was handed over to him.

A 60-year-old man accused of threatening to kill his wife with a chainsaw and to blow up the house with a gas cylinder was found not guilty on all charges yesterday when his wife said she did not want to proceed with the complaint.

The 10 men and two women on the jury for the trial of a middle-aged sports coach accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in 2004 are expected to begin deliberations today.

A middle-aged man on trial for sexually assaulting a teenage girl when he was a sports coach allegedly got into a bed naked beside her and said he was only trying to help her.

A barman moving large gas bottles who had his shin ripped open on a steel-built stairway has been awarded €40,000 in compensation.

An energy therapist who carried out a bizarre campaign of blackmail against his sister-in-law and her husband wrote an apology to them while remanded in custody for the past week.

A woman was sexually assaulted in an “opportunistic” crime after she became drunk and passed out when she came out of a pub, Cork Circuit Criminal Court heard yesterday.

The skipper and owners of a fishing boat, who were convicted and fined a total of €4,000 on charges partly related to out-of-date safety equipment on a trawler, failed in their application under the Probation of Offenders Act to have the convictions dismissed.

A Corkman serving a four-year sentence for money-laundering sued the State for damage caused to his house when gardaí carried out a search for money they believed was hidden there.

A 16-year-old who got bail yesterday on strict conditions — including that he would take any phonecalls made to him by gardaí — said he did not want to be talking to gardaí.

A woman successfully appealed a case yesterday where it was alleged that she caught a care worker by the throat because she “went ballistic” over her elderly mother being taken by taxi rather than ambulance from a nursing home to hospital.

Two traders in Cork’s famous English Market who met Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in 2011 were back in the limelight at Cork Circuit Court yesterday.

A father of four living with his wife and children in a caravan on the side of the road in Mallow said in court yesterday he would move but they were terrified to move to the house offered by Cork County Council.

A social worker put the names of children on the official HSE list of children at risk who should never have been placed on it in order to carry out a €96,000 financial scam for herself.

A road rage incident got out of control when a man climbed into the cab of a truck, punched the driver, snatched his phone, and threatened that he would have stabbed him in the throat if he had a knife.

A Ballincollig man who said he knew where a number gardaí lived and was going to burn down their homes was jailed for a year yesterday.

An energy therapist got the idea from a sex addict patient to make up a story about his sister-in-law’s husband and he then set about a bizarre campaign of blackmail.

A garda suffered a flying kick to the chest resulting in a heavy impact from an assailant’s metal prosthetic leg as he arrested the man for trying to assault his own girlfriend.

A jury returned an 11-1 guilty verdict in the re-trial of a man accused of pouring a kettle of boiling water and sugar over his pregnant girlfriend’s leg.

An appallingly mean theft by a Wexford man who travelled to Cork City and stole an 82-year-old woman’s handbag resulted in him having his jail sentence increased on appeal yesterday from six to eight months.

A motorist has denied a dangerous-driving charge where a man claimed that the driver knocked him down by driving straight at him at speed.

A Co Cork man threatened to carry a shotgun on the city’s MacCurtain St in an attempt to get himself killed by drawing the fire of armed gardaí. He was remanded in custody.

Tributes were paid at Cork Circuit Court yesterday to barrister Liam Crowley who died unexpectedly last Thursday.

A cyclist who was knocked off his bike in a collision with a vehicle when he was cycling in the wrong direction on a bicycle lane sued the motorist yesterday, but the judge said that the cyclist’s injuries could not be visited on the shoulders of the post mistress driving the car.

A 72-year-old former barrister was jailed yesterday on a charge of assault causing harm to a member of An Garda Síochána.

Drugs squad gardaí chased a man through several back gardens after they uncovered his €5,000 stash of heroin and cocaine at waste ground.

A jury has been sworn in to hear the case against a man accused of sexually exploiting and sexually assaulting his then girlfriend’s 10-year-old daughter.