A man has been remanded in custody in relation to an 81-year-old woman, walking along Winthrop Street in Cork City centre, being the victim of a robbery.

A raider, who held a knife to a shopkeeper’s chest, ran from the scene when the victim produced a toy gun.

A student advertised a room in her apartment for rental share on Daft.ie but she was sexually assaulted in a bizarre fashion by a man who spoke of bad energy in the rooms before his actions became sexual and he later plucked a hair from her head to put in his wallet.

Ian Bailey and four of his lawyers were yesterday given permission by the High Court to inspect transcripts of conversations recorded between gardaí at Bandon station and various people, including journalists.

The former assistant financial controller of Cork Opera House who created an elaborate scheme to steal more than €60,000 to pay for his cocaine habit was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday.

A man who spat, pushed and kicked at four gardai after they arrested him for a biting a stranger’s ear has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Gardai held a dog identity parade in a bid to track down a Jack Russell which attacked a six year old boy, the Circuit Civil Court was told yesterday.