Armed gardaí in Cork rushed to a hospital grounds in Glanmire, Cork and found a man carrying an axe on Tuesday afternoon, and yesterday the man’s solicitor claimed the accused was not properly before the court, writes Liam Heylin.

A man allegedly sent sexual images and text messages to his ex-partner via Facebook over a two-week period, breaking a previous order.

A woman has pleaded guilty to stabbing two women in a vicious attack in Limerick.

A man armed with a sawn-off shotgun roamed Limerick on a pedal bike in broad daylight, seeking to shoot people. He wounded one man on a busy street while the victim was chatting to a group including young girls, one with special needs.

A circuit court judge said yesterday he had never come across a more arrogant witness than the 33-year-old cyclist appealing a case where gardaí had to handcuff him when a row about his cycling escalated so badly.

A woman has been charged with stabbing another woman with a broken bottle in a horrific street attack in Limerick City.

A judge said that a man driving 178km/h on a motorway must have been driving an "airborne vehicle".

The State has been allowed 7 weeks to complete preparing a book of evidence in the case of a garda awaiting trial for allegedly possessing child porn images and movies.

Smartphones belonging to female students and other young women socialising in Cork City were targeted by a Romanian man visiting Ireland at the weekend.

A LIMERICK taximan thought he faced certain death as he was forced at gunpoint to drive for two hours around the city late at night.

A JURY foreman yesterday reassured a judge that all 12 jurors were giving a case their full attention.

A mother of two, who stole an ambulance during an emergency call-out in Dublin in January, has been jailed for four months.

The jury in the murder trial going on for the past seven weeks in Cork has returned a verdict of guilty today after deliberating for three hours and 44 minutes.

THE palm print of a woman on trial for murdering a young man in Cork two years ago was found on the broken handle of a sweeping brush at the dead man’s flat.

A GARDA spotted a shovel in a car and jokingly asked the driver if it was for burying a body — the driver is now on trial for murder.

The trial of a man and woman accused of murdering a young Fermoy man at his flat in Cork city two years ago has opened in Cork this afternoon

A MAN found with an Uzi submachine gun in a Limerick hotel was yesterday jailed for 10 years.

A man who received an award for volunteering in his community has been given a four-year sentence for sexually abusing three young boys.

A HIGH-PROFILE Limerick criminal was yesterday jailed at Limerick District Court for public disorder, a string of motoring offences and breaching a bail curfew.

The jury in a Dublin murder trial saw footage of a man entering the murder scene before the crime and then exiting before leaving the area.

Two Co Waterford men were charged with INLA membership at a special sitting of the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.