A 32-year-old man signed a plea of guilty yesterday to 14 counts of theft of cash from a company at Little Island, Co Cork, over a period of more than three years.

The driver of an articulated truck used both hands to take photographs of a serious traffic accident as he drove past it and yesterday he was convicted of careless driving.

Gardaí arrested a man at a car valeting premises in Cork for having no passport or national ID yesterday.

The home of a Polish man in Cork was subjected to a sustained attack by a gang of men who threw stones at the property, causing €4,000 worth of damage.

The largest garda representative organisation is facing a vital ballot on rosters, and the election of new leaders, which will determine if it is to become more militant.

A man convicted of raping his spouse told gardaí it was not possible for a husband to rape a wife, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

Two men, who had charges of throwing a lighting petrol bomb into an apartment withdrawn against them in the middle of a trial, have been found guilty of assaulting a woman and her mother.

A garda has rejected suggestions he and another detective were asked to “put the frighteners” on Martin Graham in June 1997 after gardaí lost trust in the former British soldier as an informant in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder investigation.

Gardaí are angry they are being treated the same as pen-pushing civil servants under new legislation which will lead to sick pay entitlements being cut.

Attacks on gardaí are becoming more vicious and more common, according to the association representing frontline staff, which has demanded that the Department of Justice publishes the number of assaults annually.

A woman taxi driver had her car hijacked by a passenger who left her on the side of a dual-carriageway in the middle of the night causing her so much anxiety in the months afterwards that she went on to suffer a heart attack.

A man who shot the “doting” father of a 3-year-old in Blarney, Co Cork, and claimed he had only been trying to scare off the victim, was yesterday found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Minister for Justice Alan Shatter and the leader of the association representing the country’s rank and file gardaí have become embroiled in yet another row — this time over the Defence Forces.

A new operation aimed at targeting gangs of travelling criminals who are responsible for an 8% rise in burglaries nationally has got under way, according to Garda Commissioner Martin Callanan.

A row has broken out between the leaders of rank-and-file gardaí and the justice minister after they accused him of being “soft on crime” and “dismantling frontline policing”.

There are not enough gardaí left to police the State “efficiently and effectively” because the force has suffered unprecedented retirements and is getting no recruits due to an embargo.

AN EIGHT-MONTH jail sentence was imposed on the driver of a Nissan Micra who drove into a housing estate and did a handbrake turn in front of a parked Garda car.

GOVERNMENT plans to cut the Garda force to 13,000 will lead to increased attacks on the public, according to the organisation which represents rank and file gardaí.

TWO Limerick cousins were yesterday remanded to today’s sitting of Listowel District Court arising from alleged incidents in Rathkeale, Co Limerick.

THE organisation representing the country’s rank-and-file gardaí is to recommend that its 11,200 members vote to accept the terms of the Croke Park agreement on public service pay and reform.

A third man has been charged this evening over a botched attempted armed robbery of a jewellery shop on Dawson Street, in Dublin city centre last Friday.

Two men were remanded in custody today after they were charged over a botched attempted armed robbery of a jewellery shop on Dawson Street, in Dublin city centre on Friday last.

A man who sexually abused his now-teenage daughter almost on a daily basis - including regular oral rape - from the time she made her First Holy Communion has been jailed for 12 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney.

A man who took part in a violent attack on gardaí who were trying to arrest his cousin may be given community work in lieu of a prison sentence.

A Mongolian man who threw a broken bottle at a fellow national leaving her with permanent facial scars has been given a two-year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 30-YEAR-OLD man whose brother is a senator yesterday became the youngest ever vice-president of the organisation which represents the county’s 11,000 rank-and-file gardaí.

A South African national who was stopped by customs officers at Cork Airport and found to have 20 kilos of cannabis grass in his luggage with a street value of €200,000 was today handed a six-year jail sentence was imposed on him.

A 15-year-old boy, who allegedly took part in an assault on a woman and broke her leg and arm while she held on to her baby, has been remanded in custody.