An innocent man was caught in the crossfire of a fight on a late night mini-bus taxi and had his nose broken and some teeth loosened.

An All-Ireland winning professional road bowler got an award of zero plus costs against him yesterday arising out of a road accident where the judge said he did not believe one word of the bowler’s evidence about his injuries.

A West Cork pensioner was out enjoying his garden on an autumn day when a block wall fell on top of him, killing him outright.

A miracle spared the life of a baby boy whose buggy was blown from his mother’s hands and pinned between a wall and a car in Ballintemple in Cork city.

The West Cork Vintage Ploughing and Threshing Association’s Ford 100 Fest will take place on the ancestral home-farm of Henry Ford at Crohane, Ballinascarthy, Co. Cork, on Sunday, August 27.

A retiring judge yesterday criticised some sectors of the media for swingeing attacks on sentences imposed by courts rather than addressing the more complex area of reintroducing prisoners to society on their release from jail.

A man involved in a violent disorder incident in Youghal, Co Cork, had the balance of an 18-month jail sentence suspended on condition he would stay away from a housing estate where the offence occurred.

A woman facing jail for the drunken neglect of her children went back on the drink on Christmas Eve and stole a purse — and yesterday she was remanded in custody for a month pending the sentencing for neglect.

Martin Coppinger won the Noel Phair Cup at Shannonvale, ending James O’Donovan’s fantastic run of wins.

A teenager said her cousin tried to interfere with her sexually when both of them were aged 15, but when gardaí asked the accused about it, he replied that it was bullshit.

An elderly priest on trial for the alleged sexual assault of a schoolboy during sex education in a school office was found not guilty yesterday.

The Cork-born head of research at a United States university is to become president of University College Cork (UCC) next February.

A mushroom producers co-operative has sued the Minister for Agriculture claiming it has suffered more than €12m losses due to alleged unlawful withholding of EU financial aid.

After a very tough first paper last Friday, most higher- level Junior Certificate maths students should have been happier with Paper 2 yesterday. Tony McGennis of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) considered the second paper to be quite fair.

Mother of six faces charges of child neglect following blackout

A Tralee man who grew cannabis in Mayo could find no place to stay on a journey to Mallow so he called to the local Garda station looking to stay there — with a bag of homegrown cannabis in his hand.

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.

Tributes were paid yesterday at Cork Circuit Court to solicitor Jeremy O’Connor, who died recently.

The trial of a man and woman accused of carrying out an aggravated burglary in the Mallow area while armed with a sledgehammer and an iron bar was about to start yesterday — but the two accused changed their pleas to guilty.

A north Cork doctor convicted by a jury of indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl during a medical examination shortly before Christmas 1989 was jailed for two years yesterday.

A woman was caught by the neck, turned upside down and spear-tackled head first into the ground by her husband outside a nightclub. Yesterday, he was remanded in custody for sentencing.

Brian Herlihy has been appointed as the Cork minor football manager and his backroom team will feature a strong influence from the county’s 2010 All-Ireland-winning team.

He’ll stay strictly professional, save maybe the odd colourful remark, but at least one Kerry voice in Killarney tomorrow will be shouting for Cork. And it’s a very familiar voice to Cork radio listeners. C103 match commentator and raconteur Paudie Palmer.

A water tank featured on both the higher and ordinary level Junior Certificate maths exam.

The lawyer for a north Cork doctor accused of sexually assaulting a teenager told a jury they were being asked to believe a woman who once thought she was pregnant with the baby Jesus by immaculate conception.

A 42-year-old man who groomed a 14-year-old girl over Facebook and texted her to meet him for oral sex was jailed yesterday in what is one of the first cases of its kind before the courts.

The senior judge of the Central Criminal Court was praised in tributes from lawyers in Cork on the occasion of his last visit as a judge – and his own seven-word reply made his feelings clear about his forthcoming retirement from the bench: “There is nothing voluntary about my going.”

The planned construction of a criminal courthouse at Anglesea St, Cork, will create up to 170 building jobs.

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 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.

New plans have been lodged for a motorway service area off the M8 motorway near Fermoy in north Cork.

Junior Certificate maths exams concluded yesterday morning and higher level students needed to be skilled at diagrams to do well.

An undercover garda made contact with a cocaine dealer and arranged to make controlled purchases of the drug from him on the instruction that the garda should refer on the phone to €100 deals as gallons.

The eight quarter-finalists in this year’s Cork U21AFC have been asked to come up with alternative proposals for the staging of their ties.

The judge who imposed three-year suspended sentences on the four young people involved in the chain of supply of drugs to two young Dungarvan men found dead in Kinsale said the case was an eloquent expression of the tragedy that drugs destroy lives.

The lorry driver on trial for assault causing harm to a detective at Fermoy Mart said yesterday that he stabbed the guard repeatedly in the hand with the key to his lorry, but only because he believed the officer was trying to get him out “dead or alive”.

Three men and a woman who were links in a chain of supply of a drug which caused the deaths of two young Dungarvan men in Kinsale in September 2012 were remanded in custody until tomorrow for sentence.