The word “slap” triggered a chain of events that saw a woman slapping a garda across the face because she mistakenly thought that the guard had referred to her as a slapper.

A garda was bitten on the hand in the back of a patrol car by a man who had been arrested in Carrigaline for public order offences.

A MAN on his way to work yesterday morning was violently stabbed by a man carrying a screwdriver in an unprovoked attack near Cork City Hall, it was alleged in court yesterday.

A GARDA was arrested yesterday in connection with the attempted robbery of a shop in Carrigaline, Co Cork.