A bloodstained man was found at the scene of a reported disturbance and yesterday he was jailed for six months arising out of that and other incidents.

Gardaí arrested four people and brought them to Cork District Court yesterday on various charges arising out of the seizure at the weekend of €600,000 worth of cannabis plants growing at an industrial unit in South Link business park.

A victim of the Pol Pot dictatorship in Cambodia this week saw his “journey of a lifetime” — to see his family after 35 years — end in heartbreak as he instead woke up in a prison cell in Shannon.

A man has pleaded guilty to carrying a hammer and a breadknife as he sought revenge for an assault.