Disturbing evidence was given in court of thick blood being smeared onto a garda’s face as a man was jailed for 11 months.

A Pakistani national was so overcome with emotion after phoning his mother for the first time in 10 years that he refused to leave his hotel room in Cork two hours after checkout time.

A MAN who climbed in the window of a hostel in Cork landed in the en-suite of a bedroom but he was so hopelessly drunk he could not get out of the toilet.