A man was yesterday charged with discharging a firearm arising out of an investigation into a shooting in Cork City, in the early hours of Sunday last, where a young woman was wounded in the neck.

A hackney driver was caught with 5kg of cannabis worth over €30,000 in the boot of his car and faced a 10-year jail term. However, yesterday the sentencing judge said a five-year suspended sentence was appropriate.

A director of a Kerry bus firm was yesterday convicted in relation to an oil spill that was inadvertently a major factor in All-Ireland winners Clare’s first senior hurling win of the year over Cork.

A LIMERICK teenager died from a cocktail of drugs which included heroin, an inquest heard yesterday.