An aggressive man who taunted a guard to “go on and arrest me” and then took off on a lap around a block in Cork city centre got his wish when the guard knocked him to the ground and arrested him.

A man chose the night of the victorious Cork camogie team’s homecoming as an opportunity to open an unattended garda patrol car, sit in it, and take selfies.

A woman who died when a van skidded on ice was most likely the person driving, an inquest established yesterday.

Supporters of a man who stood on a table and shouted in a courtroom at Cork Circuit Court were warned they would be jailed for contempt of court if they tried to film the case against him at Cork District Court yesterday.

Gardaí on duty near a bridge by the South Ring Rd in Cork saw a man take a long knife from the side of his pants as if he was drawing a sword and throw it over the side of the bridge.

A young driver “took his friend’s life” when he lost control at a junction and crashed into the pillar of a house in Co Cork.

A COMMUNITY closed ranks to thwart a Garda probe into an assault on a retired landscape gardener, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

A West Dublin teenager who was found in possession of €150,000 worth of heroin has been sentenced to seven years' detention by Judge Patrick McCartan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Chinese man who kidnapped, robbed and demanded €8,000 from a fellow national has been sentenced to eight years in prison by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A man who drove a van into a teenager during a drug-induced psychosis and claimed he did it because the victim gave him the ‘evil eye’ has been given a 12-month suspended sentence and an 18-month driving ban at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A drug addict who left a wheelchair-bound doctor in his burning surgery, has been jailed for four years by Judge Michael White at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.