Two Ballincollig brothers took the law into their hands when they heard an allegation that an elderly neighbour had been seen in the back garden of their own elderly mother’s home.

A troubled teenager who was never in prison before ended up there because he refused to take up the help of the probation service and wanted to go to jail.

The rare sight nowadays of an old-style cattle fair on the street distracted attention from the goat at Puck Fair yesterday.

Two Dublin friends have avoided going to jail after they admitted taking part in a pub brawl which ended in a man losing his eye.

A prolific burglar who hit three premises within three days of release from prison burgled a fourth house on the day she was granted bail for the other offences.

A 5-year-old boy died after a fireplace fell on him in the family home yesterday — the second fatal accident of its kind involving a child in the Cork area in recent years.

THE sing-song introductions have become as familiar as the wind and rain at British Opens since 1975, but there’s something a lot more warming and comfortable than the weather listening to veteran tournament starter Ivor Robson announce: “On the tee ...”

GARDAÍ in Charleville believe a missing octogenarian probably died of hypothermia in his car after becoming disorientated and getting lost in a remote area on the Cork-Limerick border.

A petrol bomb exploded when it was thrown at a garda patrol car after the guards were lured to a housing estate with a hoax call on Halloween night, it was claimed today, as two men were charged and refused bail.

HOUSES are flying at Clogher Failí, a new scheme of houses at Caherslee, Tralee, named after a wild flower.

AFTER just two seasons competing, Scoil Iosaef (Kilmallock) are only an hour away from a place in a Dr. Harty Cup final.

ST COLMAN’S open the defence of their Irish Examiner Dr Harty Cup title with a tricky first-round tie against Cashel CS in Clonmel tomorrow.

By Tommy Barker