A French woman who went for a walk along the bank of the River Blackwater in North Cork was sexually assaulted by a young man in a bizarre series of events.

A French woman who decided to go for a walk along the bank of the Blackwater in north Cork encountered young men tending horses and was sexually assaulted by one of the men.

AN unemployed hairdresser in a doomed marriage drank six glasses of wine and seven pints of cider on the night that ended with her stabbing her husband in the back with a carving knife.