Six or seven Bohemians soccer fans surrounded a man in Cork City on their way to a match and despite his efforts to avoid them by trying to get in the door of a pub, he was struck on head with a glass and punched.

A man dressed in full military attire, including ceremonial feathers in his cap, flagged down a Garda car at Wellington Rd in Cork to announce that he was a member of the French Foreign Legion who had lost his way.

Gardaí with confidential information that drug-dealing was taking place from a house in Douglas, Co Cork, raided it and found cannabis with a street value of €1,200.

A minibus driver who was taking a group of counsellors on a day-trip mounted the kerb, nearly reversed into another bus, and then drove through a red light.

A Nigerian asylum seeker believed she would be giving herself an advantage in the Irish naturalisation process by presenting a false Zimbabwean passport to gardaí.

The owner of a Tandoori restaurant was convicted of employing a Pakistani without a work permit despite his claims the worker had simply gone behind the counter to help out for a short period.

Gardaí arrested a man today and charged him with making a menacing phone call to former Cork hurling manager Gerald McCarthy at the height of the dispute with players back in March.

A MIDDLE-AGED man yesterday denied a charge of assault causing serious harm to former Republic of Ireland soccer international Miah Dennehy last summer.