A bag containing almost €20,000 worth of cannabis was bundled out of a speeding car on a country road and when gardaí arrested the two Fermoy men after the chase they blamed each other for the drugs.

A 47-year-old man from Passage West accused of arson causing €200,000 worth of damage to a building and making an insurance claim by deception denied both charges and went on trial by judge and jury yesterday.

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Repealing of the Eighth Ammendment will not end the debate and will lead to various questions being teased out over the next decades in the courts, writes Elizabeth O’Connell.

A 30-year-old man who was seriously injured in a crash after a high-speed car chase — in which two teenagers were killed — had his case for compensation dismissed at the High Court as he and others were found to have been part of an extremely dangerous enterprise fuelled by revenge.

A brown envelope containing €2,000 cash was handed over to a man walking his dog in a woodland by another man who wanted a witness not to give evidence in a trial.

A drink driver had to get a jail sentence for dangerous driving that seriously injured a woman who was a passenger in the car, the judge said yesterday as evidence was given of the driver ignoring appeals from passengers to slow down.

A 27-year-old man will be sentenced next month for a serious assault on another man who lost an eye as a result of the attack.

A 30-year-old man who was seriously injured in a crash after a high-speed car chase — in which two teenagers were killed seven years ago — will have to wait a little longer to find out if he is going to be compensated for his injuries.

A 30-year-old man who was seriously injured in a crash after a high speed car chase — in which two teenagers were killed — has brought a case for compensation before the High Court.

A woman was seriously injured by the dangerous driving of a young man in the early hours, at Well Rd, Cork City, despite repeated requests by his passengers to slow down.

A 48-year-old man commenced a full sexual relationship with his 12-year-old niece by first kissing her and telling her that this would cure her spots.

The jury in the case against a man accused of having a sexual relationship with his 12-year-old niece took over four hours of deliberation to return majority verdicts of guilty yesterday.

The man accused of having a sexual relationship with his 12-year-old niece said that not alone did he not do it but he could not have done so as he suffered from erectile dysfunction.

The defence in the case against a man on trial for counts related to an alleged sexual relationship with his 12-year-old niece said his ex-wife came up with this story after a big row.

A man claimed he was sexually abused from the time of his 13th birthday while out shooting with a neighbour.

A woman was dragged from her car and knocked to the ground by a man trying to take her vehicle at a service station.

A former publican claimed in the High Court a former AIB investment manager stole from her and defrauded her of her investment in the pub.

A drunk driver who was pursued “from one end of Cork to another” in a stolen van before “deliberately” driving at a stationary garda motorcyclist has moved to appeal his 12-year sentence.

A 30-year-old man was put on trial yesterday for allegedly threatening to put a gun to his aunt’s head and to burn down her house after she inherited the property from her mother and decided to sell it.

An 81-year-old woman was followed from a post office and robbed of her pension.

A Frenchman attacked in the middle of the day in Cork City suffered head injuries that resulted in his death, and yesterday his family travelled from France to see the culprit jailed for five years.

Our top chefs pay tribute to their mums, and recall some of the childhood meals that inspired their future careers. Joe McNamee reports.

A Polish national living in Ireland for 10 years was yesterday jailed for two years for having €432,000 worth of cannabis resin and grass at his home in Macroom, Co Cork, last April.

A Corkman confessed yesterday to the unlawful killing of a French homeless man in Cork City last September.

A rifle-point robbery at a fast food restaurant was triggered by a row over payment for a chicken baguette.

A man was nearly killed when he was stabbed in a row that erupted out of a house party that had been so convivial moments earlier that a woman had been doing handstands.

A jail sentence has been imposed on a man who took his partner’s van after a drunken row and drove 900 metres through the streets of Mallow with her hanging on to the bonnet.

A Chinese national went on trial in Cork yesterday charged with four counts relating to the discovery of a €600,000 cannabis growhouse at an industrial unit in Cork City.

A girl who was sexually abused by her own father said yesterday that the only lesson she learned from him was that there are monsters who live among us.

A €142,800 award has been made to a Polish teacher who was struck by the rear of a truck as he cycled past it on a narrow footpath on the lorry driver’s left-hand side.

Apple’s work practices are under attack by two activist groups who say the company makes its iPhones with a hazardous mix of chemicals that threaten the health of factory workers assembling the devices in China.

CCTV captured a man throwing his hands up in celebration and shouting “three knockouts” after he punched three men in the face in an unprovoked attack in Cork City centre.

The company which operates the 999 emergency calls system has defended its staff for the way in which they handled two desperate 999 calls made from a mobile phone on the stricken Tit Bonhomme after it struck Adam’s Island.

The sole survivor of the Tit Bonhomme said he had slept for up to eight hours on the trawler’s fishing expedition in January last year, in a fresh statement that challenges the findings of the only official report conducted into the tragedy.

A 15-year-old who ordered a householder to strip naked as a kettle of boiling water was thrown at him during a burglary, asked for bail yesterday so he could go fishing and mountain climbing and come home from custody at weekends.

A 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty yesterday to his part in an aggravated burglary where a householder was ordered to strip naked as a kettle of boiling water was thrown at him.

A mother of four who was caught twice dealing heroin in Cork City was described yesterday as a serious drug dealer.

A 31-YEAR-OLD man whose wife caught him kissing and cuddling with the babysitter promised to end his affair with the teenager but it became an intense sexual relationship over the following months.

A CORKMAN whose father killed his mother many years ago was jailed for five years yesterday for dealing heroin and cannabis from his home.

A 31-year-old Cork man accused of murder has told a jury at the Central Criminal Court that he "was like a volcano erupting" the night he stabbed one of his neighbours to death.

A Corkman who was involved in a savage assault on two men in front of a 10-year-old girl while they were out fishing has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.