A five-year jail sentence has been imposed on a man who rammed gardaí in a patrol car when he drove at them in reverse at high speed on a narrow country road in North Cork.

A woman feared she was going to be killed when she was attacked by men who dragged her into an apartment, held her on a step, and stamped on her head, as well as punching her repeatedly.

A soccer player took exception to a foul tackle on a teammate and came across the pitch and punched the opponent knocking him unconscious.

A bizarre plan to get shot dead or sent to a psychiatric hospital saw a man arming himself with a hammer and knives in a Garda station to provoke a response from armed gardaí.

A 47-year-old man, who denied arson causing €200,000 to his own business but was found guilty by a jury, pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of making a fraudulent insurance claim afterwards.

The man convicted of raping and killing beautician Rachel Kiely in Ballincollig in 2000 was sentenced to 21 months yesterday for heroin dealing in Macroom.

Gardaí were threatened by a man claiming to have “a Glock and six bullets” when they responded to the report of a woman assaulted at an apartment in Cork City. Armed gardaí had to assist at an increasingly volatile scene.

Gardaí arrested a man who jumped bail in a case where his dealing of a synthetic drug resulted in the death of a teenager.

Gardaí were rammed at high speed by a stolen jeep driven in reverse on a narrow country road in North Cork, with a judge saying the two officers were almost killed on the night.

A former manager of Douglas Village shopping centre in Cork was jailed for four years yesterday for stealing €22,000 entrusted to him in rents from commercial tenants for the owners.

A bodybuilder who got involved in the sale of anabolic steroids in Cork pleaded guilty to the offences yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

The 47-year-old man from Passage West who denied arson causing €200,000 worth of damage to a building where his company had its business was found guilty yesterday.

An innocent man was caught in the crossfire of a fight on a late night mini-bus taxi and had his nose broken and some teeth loosened.

A gambling addiction got so out of hand for a young Cork man that he resorted to drug dealing to make money to bet and ended up leaving the country when his life was threatened.

A bodybuilder’s thinking became reckless as a result of using steroids and he ended up supplying steroids and cocaine, his barrister said yesterday.

A five-year suspended jail term was imposed yesterday on the bookkeeper for a haulage firm in Macroom, Co Cork, who stole over €200,000 from her employers over a 14-year period.

A man who sent sexually explicit text messages and images to at least 10 women has admitted harassment.

A 47-year-old man from Passage West accused of arson causing €200,000 worth of damage to a building and making an insurance claim by deception denied both charges and went on trial by judge and jury yesterday.

A gambler snatched €40,000 of diamond engagement rings from a jewellers in Fermoy, Co Cork.

A South African student who ran out of money in Cork set up an elaborate scam for getting phones through fraudulent bill-pay schemes and then selling them on the internet.

The victim of a city centre robbery was left frightened by the attack which happened as he walked to his city home shortly before midnight and two of those involved were jailed yesterday.

A young man appealing a drugs conviction returned to court with a 200-word essay on his observations from attending four of his local district court sittings.

A bench warrant was issued yesterday for the arrest of a man who had most of his two-year jail sentence suspended in a drugs case following a teenager’s death at what was described as an orgy of drink and drugs.

A 64-year-old woman failed yesterday in her appeal against public order convictions as the judge said he did not believe her version of events.

Two brothers were jailed yesterday after they were caught with house-breaking equipment in their car on a quiet country road — an offence described by the judge as sinister and creating unease in society.

A 17-year-old who sold the psychoactive drug U47700 in a case where a teenager died in Cork in January felt that his crime did not warrant a jail term.

A Cork man who maintains “an image of himself as a man to be feared” was jailed yesterday for five years.

A man who had most of his two-year jail term suspended following a teenager’s death at an orgy of drink and drugs was given another chance to co-operate with the Probation Service after evidence that he was continuing to take drugs and was not co-operating.

A miracle spared the life of a baby boy whose buggy was blown from his mother’s hands and pinned between a wall and a car in Ballintemple in Cork city.

A man who had most of his two-year jail sentence suspended in a case following a teenager’s death at an orgy of drink and drugs has failed to co-operate with the Probation Service, it emerged yesterday

A date was set yesterday for the trial, by judge and jury, of a member of An Garda Síochána facing 212 charges related to alleged deception, theft, and receiving corrupt payments.

A man with over 50 shoplifting convictions thanked a judge profusely for granting him bail yesterday and said: “We go back a long way, boy.”

A man serving a lengthy sentence for discharging a shotgun while shouting a death threat got a six-month jail term on drugs charges yesterday.

A man who threatened his wife that he was going to kill their four children — starting with “the favourite” child — and then kill her, yesterday received a fully suspended jail sentence.

A Dunnes Stores employee who slipped and fell on a wet floor while shopping in another Dunnes outlet was yesterday awarded €40,000 in compensation.

A man was ordered to do anger management as he was given a suspended 18-month term yesterday for harassing his wife in 2015.

A Cork man was yesterday jailed for seven years, with the last two years suspended, for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl last year.

A shot was discharged from a sawn-off shotgun when a man who was threatening to shoot a woman tripped over her dog.

A three-year-jail term with half of it suspended was imposed yesterday on a man who sexually assaulted his own four-year-old daughter when she sought comfort after a nightmare.

A stash of cocaine worth €31,000 was found under a man’s bed in Carrigaline and yesterday the accused was told he had his priorities wrong in putting his job before his rehabilitation.

Gardaí chased a Dublin man down the platform of Mallow railway station and caught him with over €10,000 in stolen cash and thousands of euro worth of jewellery stuffed into his socks and pockets.

A man storing €11,000 worth of cocaine substitute pentedrone has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.

A woman was dragged from her car and knocked to the ground by a man trying to take her vehicle at a service station.

A man who was left with a neck wound requiring 104 stitches when he was struck with a bottle was paid €4,500 compensation by the accused and sentencing was adjourned for a year.