A long slash-hook was waved at gardaí when they called to a house in Cork in the early hours of the morning in response to a call for assistance for an injured woman.

Anyone assaulting a garda, hospital staff or members of the emergency services was at risk of a jail sentence, a judge warned yesterday as he sentenced a man to four months for such a crime.

A man has admitted robbing a 64-year-old woman while she prayed.

A SQUABBLE between housemates about rent spilled over outside a supermarket as two men attacked a third while he loaded shopping into his car.