A Lithuanian who was described as being part of a gang involved in flooding Cork with heroin was yesterday jailed for nine months.

Gardaí had to go to a Mass in Cork City to arrest a man who was so drunk he was a source of danger in the church.

A middle-aged father misinterpreted a man’s purpose in asking his daughter for a cigarette and reacted by striking him in the side of the face with a pint glass.

FOUR women were convicted and fined yesterday for running a brothel in an apartment in Cork city centre.