A young Cork man charged with carrying out the robbery of €1,800 from a Cork city convenience store breached his bail eight times over the holiday period and was today remanded in custody.

A 57-year-old man who put his hand on the leg of a 19-year-old woman sitting beside him on a bus in Cork city has been found guilty of sexual assault, despite his claim it was merely an empathetic tap to say “be happy”.

A 26-year-old League of Ireland soccer player who also played cross-channel blew cigarette smoke into the faces of gardaí in Cork and warned he would randomly assault a member of the public if they did not arrest him.

A teenage busker was approached by a man in Cork city centre in the middle of the day and asked for a kiss by the man who then stole all of the money the busker had earned.