An out-of-control Sligo man threatened to bite the nose off a garda as he threatened to kill her during an extremely violent incident in Allihies, Co Cork, during the summer.

A three-year jail sentence was imposed on an Estonian man who caused life-changing injuries for a Castletownbere man in an unprovoked attack with a glass bottle.

A Castletownbere man who volunteered in a community tidy-up was strolling back to his car when he was struck from behind with a glass cider bottle.