A detective garda, who thought he would die when he was viciously attacked by two pitbull terriers, has been awarded €200,000 damages against the State in the High Court.

A 52-year-old Detective Garda hero was “ferociously and viciously” attacked by two pit bull terriers that were released against gardaí as they searched for drugs, a judge was told yesterday.

A man described by gardaí as a trusted member of a leading drugs gang in Cork City who was caught with a €17,000 bar of cocaine got a fully suspended sentence.

A Clare man was forced to leave the country for England due to the attention from his infatuated former lover, a court has been told.

A senior Garda yesterday said he finds it “nothing short of astonishing” that a former air hostess infatuated with her former lover could allegedly be breaking her bail conditions concerning contact with the man.

A teenager was charged with murder today in relation to the fatal stabbing of a man in Blarney, Co Cork, over two months ago.

One of the men on trial for murdering a young man in the Mahon area of Cork last year went home and told his aunt minutes after the incident that “things got out of hand.”

A jury in the trial of a Tipperary man accused of raping a woman as she slept in her father’s house after celebrating her 19th birthday has heard that he denied the allegation during Garda interview.

Two gardaí were cleared today on a charge of assault causing harm to a teenager at a holding cell in Gurranabraher garda station in Cork.

A garda told a murder trial jury today that he found a "long bar" in grass during a search of a field following the discovery of the body of Portuguese man nearby.