A Mario Rosenstock fan who was not amused when asked for his ticket halfway through a gig at the Marquee in Cork has brought a case against the security firm, alleging that he was defamed.

A man jailed for five years for threatening to kill French flatmates in Cork told them that terrorist attacks in France and Brussels were excellent things.

The partner of the young woman who was found dead at Sheares St, Cork City, on Sunday was in court yesterday charged with assault causing harm to a young man on Monday.

The man who allegedly declared in Cork that terrorist attacks in France brought him joy was yesterday remanded in custody until May. And he seemed to ask the judge if he would jail himself, too.

People passing the front gates of Cork’s Bishop Lucey Park last Friday had to avoid a man whirling long chains with fireballs attached.

The man who allegedly declared in Cork that terrorist attacks in France brought him joy has refused to co-operate in having himself psychiatrically evaluated, it emerged yesterday.

Threats to cut the heads off Jews were allegedly made by a 39-year-old man dressed in dark robes and carrying the Koran who appeared before Cork District Court today.

A heroin dealer who was jailed this month for a stash concealed in a teddy bear got another sentence for a drug driving crime yesterday .

A court has refused to return a passport to a Clare woman, whose partner is involved in organised crime in Limerick, to allow her go on a foreign holiday.

Bogus insurance claims and staged traffic accidents poison the atmosphere for valid claims as well as tying up gardaí and ambulance services to bolster the frauds, the sentencing judge said yesterday.

A belligerent man shouted “silence, silence, silence” into the face of a garda who asked for his name and later when gardaí were going through his pockets as part of a routine search he urinated in his pants.

A man has been jailed for a kung-fu style kick on a garda which resulted in her requiring medical attention.

A man has appeared in court charged with handling almost 1,200 stolen pigs. The animals, piglets and adult pigs, are alleged to have been stolen from a Westmeath pig farm in 2012.

A CHRONIC gambler stole €15,000 from Goleen Developments Ltd, while working there, and carried out a robbery at a goldsmiths in Mallow, Co Cork, in desperation to get money. He was jailed yesterday for four years.

INDEPENDENT Senator Ivor Callely has been fined €60 for holding a mobile phone while driving his car.

Independent Senator Ivor Callely was fined €60 today at Dublin District Court for holding a mobile phone while driving his car.

Two gardaí on trial for perverting the course of justice were cleared of all charges at Cork Circuit Criminal Court today.

Two men appeared in court on this morning charged in connection with an explosives find near Kells on Wednesday.

A garda has been given a one-month suspended sentence for assaulting a school teacher in the 2002 May Day "Reclaim the Streets" demonstration, in Dublin city centre.

A man was punched in the face by a garda and then hit with a baton by another at the Reclaim The Street protest in Dublin two years ago, a court heard today.

A garda inspector has told the trial of three gardaí charged with beating a ‘Reclaim the Streets’ protestor on the head with their batons in May 2002 that, as far as he knew, no order was given that day for the use of batons.

A teenage burglar, who held a woman up in her house and threatened to stab her, has been given a 20-month sentence, by Judge Angela Ní Chonduin, at the Dublin Children’s Court.