The teenager charged with murdering Cameron Blair on Bandon Road in Cork appeared at the children’s court in Cork again where it emerged that Gardaí were ready to send a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Mr Blair, whose funeral took place in Bandon last Sunday, was a second-year Chemical Engineering student at Cork Institute of Technology.

An observant passer-by saw signs of a Christmas burglary at a house in Cork City and yesterday the culprit was jailed for six months.

A woman from Donnybrook in Cork faced sentencing today arising out of the Garda seizure of €1,500 worth of cocaine more than a year ago.

A 17-year-old was arrested and charged arising out of an investigation into dangerous driving in which an 80-year-old woman was injured in Blackpool, Cork, on Tuesday.

Judge Olann Kelleher sent the case against the accused forward from Cork District Court today to the Central Criminal Court.

Garda Stephen Cleary told the court the man’s wife has had to get a barring order against him because of the persistent and continuing pattern of communications.

Niamh O’Flynn, aged 24, of Sunberry, Blarney, Co Cork, pleaded guilty today to eight counts of theft from shops.

The 33-year-old was arrested at his mother’s house on Sunday night.

A man described by a senior garda as “a significant player” in the sale and supply of drugs in West Cork 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.

A 14-year-old boy kicked and pushed his mother outside the juvenile court at Cork District Court moments before his case was called — yesterday the judge warned him he was on his last chance.

Gardaí investigating the murder of two-year-old Santina Cawley at Boreenmanna Road in Cork in July have taken 200 statements and followed 430 lines of enquiry, it emerged yesterday.

A man has been jailed for punching a garda sergeant in the head when he was being served with a barring order secured against him by his mother.

A 56-year-old man appeared at Cork District Court yesterday charged with eight counts of stealing medication at St Catherine’s unit of the Mercy University Hospital over a five-month period last year.

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.

The two people on different trespass-related charges arising out of a murder investigation were remanded in custody yesterday.

A pregnant woman in her thirties has been charged with the murder of a two-year-old girl at an apartment in Elderwood Park, Boreenmanna Road on the southside of Cork city on July 5th.

A judge has ordered a man facing criminal charges to be admitted into a psychiatric unit and to be placed on a waiting list for treatment at the Central Mental Hospital after his solicitor admitted he had struggled to get him the treatment he needs while in custody.

A young man was slashed across the nose and face with a knife when he tried to pay a drug debt, it was alleged at Cork District Court yesterday.

A book of evidence was served yesterday on a man accused of assaulting his partner where it was alleged that she sustained potentially life-threatening stab injuries for which she was hospitalised for three weeks.

A judge has said he will have little option but to release a man likely to be found not guilty by reason of insanity unless state services can provide the acute in-patient mental health care he needs.

A 62-year-old man will face trial by judge and jury on a charge of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in a hospital ward in the early hours of the morning.

The solicitor for Tansanqa Radise told a judge that his client could not get a bed at the HSE's Carraig Mór centre in Cork because he had an address in Dublin.

All-Star camogie player Ashling Thompson avoided criminal convictions for assaulting two young women at a nightclub in Cork on her undertaking to pay €6,000 to family refuge charities and to cover witness expenses.

A Cork woman sustained potentially life-threatening stab injuries for which she was hospitalised for three weeks last December — yesterday her husband was charged with assault causing serious harm.

GAA All-Star camogie player Ashling Thompson pleaded guilty to assaulting a second woman at a nightclub in Cork.

A man with several previous drug-dealing convictions discarded a bag of white powder when gardaí approached to search him in Cork City. The powder, recovered by officers, was forensically tested and found to be cocaine.

Gardaí arrived at the top of a hill in a remote forested area and found tents around a bonfire in a clearing where one man had a stash of cocaine, ecstasy, and acid tablets for a party.

A Cobh man who tried to strike gardaí with a glass bottle and later tried to head-butt them was yesterday jailed for four months.