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.

A Garda trying to get into a pub to carry out a late-night inspection heard loud 'shushing' from inside the pub as he was left standing outside the locked premises.

A keg of beer was rolled down a flight of steps at a garda as he investigated a drunken disturbance.

A man who got involved in a street fight outside a house party in Ballyvolane, Cork City, in the early hours of the morning was yesterday sentenced to four months in jail.