A woman was dragged from her car and knocked to the ground by a man trying to take her vehicle at a service station.

A 58-year-old Co Limerick man, charged in connection with the seizure of an estimated €160,000 worth of cannabis plants, told gardaí after his arrest: “I wasn’t growing them; they’re not my property”, a court heard.

A Cork pensioner who was killed when a wall fell on him as he pottered around his garden died of blunt force trauma to his head, an inquest into his death has heard.

A woman who was about to drive away from a filling station at night was dragged from her car and knocked to the ground where she hit her head, it was alleged at Cork District Court.

An off-duty detective witnessed an assault in the middle of a busy roundabout shortly before lunchtime where the attacker tried to stab the victim in the head with a scissors.

Gardaí found the body of a newborn baby boy in the toilet of a house in Cork City last summer.

A young woman who stole rings valued at €60,000 from her mother and stole more rings from her grandmother was given a suspended two-year jail sentence yesterday.

Goalkeeper for the Clare football team Garda Joe Hayes proved to be a life-saving last line of defence yesterday in a dramatic river rescue in Limerick.

A Co Kildare resident appeared in court today charged in connection with a seizure of guns and ecstasy tablets in Dublin on Wednesday last.

A chronic heroin addict found himself pinned to the ground by a former Estonian policeman whose house he tried to burgle, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was told.