Gardaí found a young woman in tears in Cork city centre after a heroin addict had approached her from behind and snatched her handbag containing her iPhone 5.

A garda had two fingers stuffed up his nose as he was caught in a headlock by a motorist who parked his car blocking a side street off Cork city centre.

A heroin addict was found lying across a pew in a Cork church last Christmas Eve with the paraphernalia of drug use scattered around him and yesterday the 28-year-old was jailed for eight months for that and a series of shoplifting offences.

A taxi driver was convicted of punching a female passenger in the jaw as the judge dismissed his allegations that he had been racially abused.

A racing fan was yesterday ordered to pay a fine of €175 for his drunken behaviour.

A woman claimed a former partner tried to strangle her at the weekend but the accused yesterday claimed the only reason he went to her home was because she had threatened to kill herself.

An Armagh man accused of having 20,000 cigarettes and 240 packets of loose tobacco for sale at the weekend in Cork without payment of duty told gardaí he was in Cork for a stag night but later said he was in the area for a road bowling match.

A man exasperated by the constant barking of a neighbour’s dog sprayed the Labrador with his hose to get him to stop but the dog’s owner reacted by threatening to kill his neighbour with a hurley.

A hospital porter was tossed aside and injured as he tried to break up a fight outside Mercy University Hospital and was out of work for three weeks as a result.

A troubled 16-year-old who spent the last two weeks in detention in a case related to robbing phones from other youths was warned by a judge yesterday to respect his mother on his release home.

A man facing a robbery charge was remanded in custody for a fortnight yesterday in a case where a young American had her skull fractured by a man who allegedly walked up behind her and swung a 2ft machete at her head before robbing her.

A woman was caught by the neck, turned upside down and spear-tackled head first into the ground by her husband outside a nightclub in Cork this week, it was claimed by a detective garda yesterday.

A bus driver had reported to gardai seeing four motorcyclists driving, in a line, abreast of each other on a regional road.

A motorist was caught driving without insurance for the 73rd time and yesterday he was jailed for five months.

A 40-year-old man pleaded guilty yesterday to sending frightening emails and texts to his mother.

An argument between a married couple after a night out involving alcohol led to the husband losing control of his car and crashing it 100 metres from his home.

Gardaí arrived at a disturbance on the Blarney Road to find a man warning a woman that she was "lucky they came, because I’d have killed you".

A former postman with An Post was yesterday charged with opening postal packets at his home last year.

Seven people were arrested yesterday on different charges related to an alleged mortgages fraud amounting to a total of almost €1m against Bank of Ireland.

A man charged in connection with the road death of a Ring of Kerry charity cyclist has secured bail.

A 33-year-old man has been remanded in custody with consent to bail after he was charged with three counts of threatening to kill, and one each of endangerment and assault causing harm.

Gardaí arrested a man and charged him with 14 counts of causing criminal damage to parked cars and business premises in the Union Quay area of Cork in the early hours of yesterday.

A man jumped out of a car and snatched an 84-year-old woman’s shopping trolley.

A Congolese national has been remanded in custody after he was charged in relation to the disappearance of almost €60,000 from a US multinational in Cork City earlier this year.

A 36-year-old man has been further remanded in custody, in connection with the death of a mother of three, whose body was found at her home in Co. Cork at the weekend.

Five men have been charged in connection with a sulky race on the main Cork to Limerick road earlier this year which became a YouTube hit.

A young woman was left scarred over her eye after being struck with a glass at a nightclub and yesterday a man pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing harm to her.

A Chinese man living in Ireland for 11 years was arrested in Cork yesterday and charged with having a stun gun, dangerous driving, and failing to stop his car for gardaí.

A prison officer enjoying a lunchtime jog stumbled on uneven tarmac and fell under an oncoming lorry, an inquest heard.

A 22-YEAR-OLD man who punched and kicked a former Cork intercounty star in the face, breaking his jaw, has avoided a jail term at Cork District Court.

A TAXI driver who was directed on a wild goose chase from Kinsale to Ballincollig ended up being assaulted by two men who tried to rob his takings.

A WOMAN who attacked security staff and gardaí at the emergency department of a Cork hospital and shouted that she hoped patients would die was yesterday jailed for six weeks at Cork District Court.

A MAN has been arrested and charged with assault causing harm over a serious stabbing incident in Hollyhill, Cork.

A MAN who was reluctant to hand over his cross and chain at the Bridewell in Cork because it had been blessed in the Vatican was convicted yesterday of assaulting three members of An Garda Síochána in the station.

FOUR women were convicted and fined yesterday for running a brothel in an apartment in Cork city centre.

THE palm print of a woman on trial for murdering a young man in Cork two years ago was found on the broken handle of a sweeping brush at the dead man’s flat.