Garda Nigel Desmond risked his own life to help the man who was seen entering the southern channel of the river at Lancaster Quay just before 1pm.

A Lithuanian man travelled to Cork on the promise of work but fell in with bad company and was caught with 10 deals of heroin on the Fever Hospital steps in Blackpool.

A man caught with €2,000 worth of cocaine in a jacket appealed a jail sentence on the basis he had snatched the jacket in a burglary and did not know the drugs were there.

A 24-year-old man hoping to avoid detection for carrying drugs put two pieces of cannabis in his mouth and fled from gardaí with five deals of heroin in his underpants.