A 46-year-old Cork man dropped his pants and exposed his buttocks to gardaí in full view of a group of Spanish students in Cork city centre, writes Liam Heylin.

A Good Samaritan who was concerned about a girl screaming outside his house when she was under attack from two men took a long samurai sword from over his fireplace to frighten off the woman’s attackers.

A woman who was never in trouble before was ordered to do community service yesterday for what a sentencing judge described as “a fairly ferocious attack” on a garda.