Two men have been jailed after a savage golf club attack on a man as he celebrated his daughter’s christening.

A judge said an escapade that involved driving a stolen van from Cork City to Killarney while being pursued at times by patrol cars, could have killed someone.

A FORMER nurse at a Cork hospital was fined €3,000 yesterday for stealing quantities of drugs from a medical store at the hospital and forging the signatures of other medical staff in the process.

"This is a stick-up" is what the first man in a queue told a postmistress as soon as she opened for business - but within minutes, he was arrested and held by a local pensioner and a Ukrainian national.