A Cork man jailed for a headbutt assault, which lead to doctors telling the victim’s wife to “prepare for the worst”, has had his sentence cut on appeal.

A High Court judge has directed an inquiry into the legality of the detention, in Limerick Prison, of a Cork mother for contempt of a Circuit Court order directing she hand over possession of her home to a bank.

UCC was fined €80,000 and ordered to pay Health and Safety Authority costs of €4,000 for breaches which resulted in the death of an employee assisting a cherry-picker operator on campus, as the judge spoke about complacency with such vehicles on the streets of Cork.

The State funded more than €27,000 spent on wigs and gowns and other incidentals for the judiciary during the first six months of this year.

A late-night dare game called “Odds” resulted in a young man who was never in trouble in his life walking up to a total stranger, punching him in the face, and breaking his jaw. The culprit was jailed yesterday.

A sentence of eight years was imposed yesterday on the man who carried out a head-butt assault on a man in Cork city centre in an unprovoked attack which the judge described as vicious, cowardly and one which probably had “some element of racism.”

A Corkman wanted by gardaí for carrying €70,000 cocaine through the city nine years ago was extradited from Spain after being arrested there recently for a minor drugs offence.

A man whose unprovoked headbutt on a man on his way home from a night out in Cork City had devastating consequences for the victim and yesterday the judge remanded the accused in custody overnight to consider what sentence to impose.

A 17-year-old boy who had sex with a 15-year-old girl when they were in care in the same Cork foster home has been given nine months to earn a more lenient sentence by showing a judge he has turned his life around.

A “menace to society” will start a six-year jail term today for a violent assault on his teenage girlfriend in what the judge described as a despicable offence by a coward and a bully.

Two good Samaritans who came to the assistance of a man having an epileptic fit rowed afterwards about how they had cared for the victim and it escalated to the point where one of them stabbed the other in the throat.

Two teenagers who got their first experience of jail when they were remanded in Cork Prison on Friday for numerous breaches of their bail were shocked to be in the prison when an inmate was stabbed to death.

A teenager whose mother, father, and brother all took their lives at different times in the family home failed in his appeal yesterday against a conviction for assaulting a man in a pub.

A 10-year-old boy who slipped on a water slide at the swimming pool in Churchfield in Cork was awarded €3,500 yesterday for an injury to his shoulder.

Sunday’s Well Rugby Football Club yesterday said players have been endangered by the construction of a wall by McDonald’s restaurant close to the dead ball area of a pitch.

Cork auctioneer Liam Lynch failed yesterday in a legal challenge against a rates bill for over €100,000, in respect of vacant buildings among a portfolio of properties he owned.

A heroin dealer who was a trusted player in the drug underworld was jailed for six years yesterday after being caught with €95,000 worth of heroin at his home in Cork.

A man threw a glass across a pub causing injuries to a teenage girl when it smashed and cut her face.

Man, 68, abused his daughter and step-daughter for many years

An octogenarian drug-dealer who was caught with around €60,000 worth of cannabis for sale was spared a jail sentence partly because of his age and ill health.

A mother, yesterday cleared on a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of her four-year-old daughter, is pregnant and expecting a baby girl in April.

A motorist was threatened that he would be cut open during a hijacking as the lead from a phone charger was looped around his neck.

A woman has gone on trial on a charge of dangerous driving causing the death of her own four-year-old daughter. Witnesses, it has been claimed, saw a van hitting a kerb, spinning twice through the air, and the child being thrown out on to the road.

The jury in the case against a man on trial for biting off part of his first cousin’s ear failed to reach a verdict yesterday after almost four hours of deliberation.

A man on trial for biting part of his cousin’s ear off said he never assaulted the relative and claimed yesterday that the complainant had asked his father for €20,000 to drop the case.

A man went on trial yesterday for allegedly biting part of his first cousin’s ear off and spitting it into his face.

The judiciary’s spend on wigs, gowns and incidental expenses last year increased by 30%, as judges’ overall expense bill topped €1.73m.

A 71-year-old priest who continued to say Mass within his religious community after serving three years for sexually abusing schoolboys was sentenced to another three years yesterday for more abuse that dates back more than 30 years.

A heroin addict travelling by bus from Dublin to Cork drew the short straw in a group of six and carried €4,400 worth of the drug internally — but as well as being detected by gardaí she was later beaten by one of the six for losing the drugs.

A shaggy dog story about a grenade found by gardaí in a shoe box in a bedroom saw a man blaming his jack russell for finding it and dragging it in from the garden.

An application to remove the businesswoman Jackie Lavin from a luxury Italianate mansion, formerly owned by her partner Bill Cullen, in the heart of the Killarney National Park has been adjourned.

A normal middle-class teenager’s life collapsed around him when a priest sexually assaulted him in the sick bay of a boarding school in 1979 and returned moments afterwards with a Disprin and a glass of water.

A man described by gardaí as a trusted member of a leading drugs gang in Cork City who was caught with a €17,000 bar of cocaine got a fully suspended sentence.

A jury of 10 men and two women reached a unanimous guilty verdict against a 70-year-old priest for a sex assault on a schoolboy in the sick bay of a boarding school in 1979.

A boarding school student in 1979 described in court yesterday how he was indecently assaulted in the sick bay by a priest who was also dean of discipline.

A 13-year-old boy suffered an “odious” and “traumatic” attack when he was falsely imprisoned by another teenager at a public toilet in Tralee and, instead of getting the support of schoolmates, was bullied afterwards.