A second man was arrested and brought before Cork District Court yesterday arising out of the investigation of a false imprisonment case where it was alleged that the door of a house was barricaded in Cork City in the early hours of Tuesday.

A gas cylinder and a mirror were thrown on top of armed gardaí during a hostage situation at a house in Cork and a threat was made to throw a 25kg dumbbell down a stairs, it was alleged yesterday.

A gas cylinder and a mirror were thrown on top of armed gardaí during a hostage situation at a house in Cork and a threat was made to throw a 25kg dumbbell down a stairs, it was alleged today.

Cases arising out of a spate of thefts of full kegs of beer from pubs around Cork City during the summer of 2013 were heard in court yesterday.

A man whose unprovoked headbutt on a man on his way home from a night out in Cork City had devastating consequences for the victim and yesterday the judge remanded the accused in custody overnight to consider what sentence to impose.

A US-bound passenger plane was forced to dump over 20 tonnes of fuel to make an emergency landing in Shannon, after a Miami barman got into a drunken rage after drinking a huge quantity of vodka on board, a court has heard.

A 28-year-old American man has been fined €1,000 after a plane was forced to divert to Shannon Airport.

A man who bit off part of his brother’s ear in a fight spat the piece of skin into the face of a member of An Garda Síochána.

Two young men who were attacked and robbed in Cork City centre were terrified of being thrown into the river and yesterday one of the attackers was jailed for two years.

A 64-year-old man making his way for the last bus home was accosted by three women who demanded money and went through his pockets to rob him, it was claimed yesterday.

The trial of four men accused of having equipment for printing counterfeit currency has heard that machines found in a bunker hidden under a yard where the men were arrested were used to print a range of images.

THE case of a man charged with assaulting an English motorist, who died after an alleged road rage attack in Dublin last September, has been upgraded to murder.

THE man and woman on trial in Cork for murder had been on the run for a few days before gardaí found them in Tralee, Cork Circuit Criminal Court was told yesterday.

TWO hero gardaí saved a 70-year-old man from being burnt to death after getting a 999 call that his house was on fire early yesterday.

A man found guilty of refusing to be tested for drink driving following a car crash, was jailed for four months and given a four-year road ban, by Judge Dermot Dempsey, at the Dublin District Court today.

MORE than 50 Garda cars and a police helicopter were involved in a high-speed chase with a 16-year-old boy across west Dublin in the early hours of yesterday morning.

A teenage boy arrested in relation to a dangerous 40-minute car chase in west Dublin in the early hours of this morning, which involved up to 50 patrol cars and the Garda helicopter, has been remanded on conditional bail.

A man who attempted to block a fire engine during the 2006 "Love Ulster" riot has escaped with a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The son of "a particularly vicious man" has been given 11 years in consecutive sentences for possession of cocaine and cannabis and then having control of a gun a year later while on bail.

THE high risk of taking cocaine, especially when mixed with alcohol, was highlighted by coroner Terence Casey at an inquest in Killarney yesterday.

A GARDA who had been following a car which crashed, killing two young people in Dundalk, Co Louth, has told an inquest that he had stopped the pursuit just before the collision and denied he had been waiting “ready to pounce” on the vehicle.

The sentence of a woman described as a "nut and fruit case" after she made a series of false claims to the Gardaí of murder, shooting, stabbing, and house fires and of being with a reported abandoned baby has been adjourned again pending a psychiatric report.

A Chinese man who robbed three fellow nationals at knifepoint after he went to view a room in their house in Lucan has been jailed for four years.

A 46-year-old man who secretly filmed his 13-year-old neighbour naked in the shower while she was staying over in his home, has been jailed for two years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.