A man tried to attack his partner at her home on Christmas Eve, even though gardaí were present at the time.

An elderly woman has been reunited with her late husband’s love letter, penned some 60 years ago, after gardaí recovered her stolen handbag yesterday.

A DISTRICT Court judge has described as “absolutely staggering” the number of people on prescribed medication appearing before the court in Cork — as he was dealing with a case of a man armed with half a hedge-clippers.