Man charged over possession of pistol

“I will find you and kill you” - that was the text message sent after midnight by a 42-year-old man to his ex-partner and yesterday he was remanded in custody for a week for the threatening charge.

A 69-year-old man arrested last week for allegedly raping his niece in the 1980s returned to Cork District Court seeking bail.

An observant passer-by saw signs of a Christmas burglary at a house in Cork City and yesterday the culprit was jailed for six months.

Judge Olann Kelleher sent the case against the accused forward from Cork District Court today to the Central Criminal Court.

The 33-year-old was arrested at his mother’s house on Sunday night.

Gardaí mounted a major investigation in an attempt to arrest criminals carrying out burglaries at the homes of elderly people going to Mass and today three accused men were in court.

A young woman who stole toys from a shop shortly before Christmas crashed into a car as she tried to drive away from the scene.

A 24-year-old man was arrested at a café in the early hours of morning for his ninth count of being drunk and a source of danger — but he said yesterday he did not have a drink problem.

A 56-year-old man appeared at Cork District Court yesterday charged with eight counts of stealing medication at St Catherine’s unit of the Mercy University Hospital over a five-month period last year.

Gary Pearse, 20, of 24 Mount St Joseph’s Heights, Bakers Road, Cork, pleaded guilty to the charge of allowing himself to be carried in a stolen car.

A man reacted to his girlfriend breaking up their relationship over a meeting at a café by throwing hot coffee into her face.

Gardaí investigating the report of a midnight burglary at a barbershop found the culprit hiding under a table at the back of the premises with €30 in coins in his pocket.

The woman accused of murdering two-year-old Santina Cauley at Boreenmanna Road in Cork two months ago was remanded on bail yesterday until October 4.

A court in Cork has heard how a man dealing with the grief of his mother’s death had his car was stolen shortly afterwards, adding to his distress.

A GPS tracking device was placed under a young woman’s car outside her house at five in the morning by her ex-partner causing her to be petrified for her life.

Bail was refused in the case against a man accused of assault causing harm to his own mother on Sunday.

A young man drank too much at an anniversary to commemorate the death of his grandmother and his behaviour resulted in gardaí being called.

Gardaí raided an apartment for a drugs search and a young man jumped out of bed and threw a packet of heroin out the window.

A young man out paintballing with friends has no blot on his record despite setting off a smoke grenade in a nightclub in Cork.

A 10-month suspended jail term was imposed on an indecisive raider who pulled out a knife at an off-licence saying “this is a robbery” but quickly clarified that it was not a robbery after all.

A member of An Garda Síochána was assaulted twice in different locations when he pursued a man in relation to a drugs search near a hotel’s underground car park.

A Cork woman sustained potentially life-threatening stab injuries for which she was hospitalised for three weeks last December — yesterday her husband was charged with assault causing serious harm.