John Murray, 39, of Derragh, Dunmanway, Co Cork, was arraigned at Cork Circuit Criminal Court where he pleaded guilty to damaging the station, threatening to kill Garda Heather Chandler, and dangerous driving.

He is also charged with robbing the man of several items, including two mobile phones and a passport, and of demanding £50,000 (€59,285) with menaces from the man.

Ian Bailey has been arrested outside a courtroom at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin, after a High Court judge endorsed the third warrant seeking his arrest and extradition to France.

Prior to sentencing Paul Carroll SC, defending, told the court that his client was assaulted outside the court. He said his client's lip was cut and he was punched.

A stag party from Co Clare turned sour when one of the visitors to Cork City — an off-duty garda — was knocked unconscious in an unprovoked attack.

A man responsible for cash at a McDonald’s outlet pocketed more than €7,000 on trips to the safe has been jailed.

Gardaí mounted a major investigation in an attempt to arrest criminals carrying out burglaries at the homes of elderly people going to Mass and today three accused men were in court.

The judge in the juvenile court of Cork District Court yesterday refused jurisdiction to deal with the case against a teenager accused of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to a two-year-old boy last March.

A Hungarian national working in a chipper in Bandon used his knowledge of the business to set up a €15,000 burglary back in 2008 and later fled the country.

A 46-year-old man appeared in court yesterday afternoon charged with the murder of his wife.

The brutal sexually-motivated murder of a mother-of-two in England 35 years ago could be a step closer to being solved following a breakthrough in the investigation.

A Croatian man stalked a young woman in Cork for days before carrying out a serious attack and threatening to kill her — even if it took him 10 years to carry out the death threat.

Natasha Nugent was travelling in the car with her husband and their two young daughters when she saw Graham McNally lying face up on the roadside.

An officer who spearheaded a Criminal Assets Bureau investigation into assets of the Kinahan crime gang has told a High Court jury a file provided to CAB by solicitor Gerald Kean led to the seizure of a Dublin man's house as the proceeds of crime.

A 42-year old married Co Clare man admitted to gardaí that he is sexually attracted to babies and toddlers aged under three and sought out pornographic material of babies online.

A 20-year old Limerick man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Jamie Higgins at a Shannon night-club in March of last year.

A man with a stash of cocaine tried to sell drugs to an off-duty garda in Cork city centre and yesterday he faced the possibility of a jail term for drug dealing.

Aidan 'The Beast' O'Driscoll was "executed" on a busy Cork street in a "well-planned" hit that was part of an internal dispute between the Real IRA and the New IRA, the Special Criminal Court has heard.

A Limerick man has lost his Supreme Court appeal against his conviction for the murder of a father of six on his 40th birthday in a case of mistaken identity.

The Central Criminal Court has been listening to evidence in the sentence hearing of Kerry farmer Michael Ferris, who drove the prongs of a teleporter into his neighbour after a decades-long row about a noisy bird-scarer.

A Leaving Certificate student at a private school in Cork got the fright of her life on the first day of her exams when she emerged from a cubicle in the school toilets to see a man unzipping his trousers and talking to her in a sexual fashion.

One of Cork’s best-known jewellers, who was found critically injured on a street after a Christmas party, died from head injuries consistent with a fall, an inquest has established.

Murder accused Jonathan Keogh had a pair of ear plugs seized from him by gardaí for the purpose of attaining DNA evidence after he was extradited from the UK, a trial has been told.

A five-year jail sentence has been imposed on a man who rammed gardaí in a patrol car when he drove at them in reverse at high speed on a narrow country road in North Cork.

Gardaí were rammed at high speed by a stolen jeep driven in reverse on a narrow country road in North Cork, with a judge saying the two officers were almost killed on the night.

The Passage man on trial for murdering his girlfriend confessed to gardaí that he stabbed her with a kitchen knife and she did not even think it was coming.

A chief superintendent has told the non-jury Special Criminal Court he believes two men are members of the IRA.

A woman felt terrorised by a man who approached her on the street with his arms bleeding and forced his way into her car.

A young man found hiding in the attic of his home when gardaí went looking for him was yesterday jailed for three years.

A significant drug dealer caught with almost €90,000 worth of cannabis and €3,000 worth of cocaine at his home in Co Cork was jailed for eight years yesterday.

A brown envelope containing €2,000 cash was handed over to a man walking his dog in a woodland by another man who wanted a witness not to give evidence in a trial.

A Lithuanian man who obstructed a drugs search in Tralee, Co Kerry, gave an undertaking to leave Ireland in seven days and not return for 10 years but he came back and was caught dealing heroin in Cork city.

Lawyers for a convicted murderer have told the Court of Appeal their client could not get a fair trial due to the “scandalous” handling of a garda informer.

A four-year suspended jail term was imposed yesterday on a man with autism for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl.

The burglary last week of the Rooster pizzeria in Cork was described by the accused man’s own solicitor as “not in the rocket science department”.

A man who threatened his wife that he was going to kill their four children — starting with “the favourite” child — and then kill her, yesterday received a fully suspended jail sentence.

The victim of a robbery attempt by a man he met via the fabguys.com gay dating website spoke up for his attacker and said he did not want to see him jailed.

One of the senior detectives leading the search for a woman who has been missing since March has made a direct appeal for her to contact gardaí.

A mother who was suffering from a personality disorder described her two-year-old son as a "fake child" on the day she killed him by stabbing a pair of scissors into his neck, a court heard today

A murder accused started crying and admitted to stabbing his girlfriend when gardaí confronted him about inconsistencies in what he had told them.

A man looking for a rat running around inside his car told gardaí he may have inadvertently touched a stash of drugs leaving his fingerprint on it.

The Garda-led investigation into the funding of international terrorism which led to the arrest and charge of an Irish citizen last week has involved the FBI, Interpol and the London Metropolitan Police, a court has been told.

A Limerick mother of four young children attacked a man with a bottle during a house party with such ferocity that doctors feared he would not survive the brain injuries that he received.

The teenager's decomposed body was found almost three months after he went missing in 2010.