A six-year jail term was imposed on a 21-year-old man who sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl in a car, parked in a field, and then dumped her on the side of the road in a state of undress.

A baby was dropped on a tiled floor by his drunken mother and in another incident weeks later she put him in a child seat in a car without securing him and he was seriously injured again.

The man accused of raping his partner at his home in Cork might be a despicable person for striking her but he did not rape her, his lawyer claimed in his closing speech at the trial yesterday.

Two Cork men beat up a young woman in her home — with one man tying her hands with a cord while his accomplice cut her long hair with a knife as she was lying on the floor.

A 65-year-old man has said he was falsely imprisoned, assaulted, and handcuffed to a radiator by his estranged wife and his son in the bathroom of a B&B.

THE trial began yesterday of an airport employee being prosecuted by the Health and Safety Authority arising out of an incident where a co-worker suffered fractures to both ankles when mobile stairs were moved as he exited the plane.