A heroin addict with a gambling problem found that ‘fishing’ money out of church collection boxes was the easiest way he could think of to pay for his addictions.

An 87-year-old Corkwoman who saved to buy presents for her grandchildren had to fend off a shoplifter who tried to pickpocket her purse — and yesterday the victim spoke of her sadness at having her confidence dented.

A Dublin mother and daughter were arrested for allegedly going on a “spree” of shoplifting and theft of purses from shoppers in Cork City to feed their crack cocaine habits at the weekend.

A man who stored his own excrement in an apartment for several months, causing €15,000 worth of damage, has been jailed for a year.

A man roaring "God Save the Queen" in Cork told a garda, "Ye arrest me because I am gay and Protestant and from Tipperary."