Diarmuid McAree In Conversation with Rita de Brún

Teenagers due to appear before the Children’s Court in Cork today did not have to turn up to face the cases which were all adjourned.

A 63-year-old man who was punched to the ground by his neighbour suffered enough on the day, a judge said as he struck out the case against the victim for allegedly threatening to put a bullet in the head of the other man.

Gardaí in Ennis seized a modified car which had its battery 'relocated' to its boot and held in place with cable ties.

The ISPCA has seized a young pony that was found tied to an electricity pole without food or water, in Clonmel, Co Tipperary.

The teenager charged with murdering Cameron Blair on Bandon Road in Cork appeared at the children’s court in Cork again where it emerged that Gardaí were ready to send a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

The man accused of the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe was on bail and under curfew at the time of the fatal shooting, the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A large Garda presence and a number of their vans secured the court. The parties left by separate exits. Solicitor for six of the accused, Padraig O’Connell welcomed what the “period of rapprochement”.

Denying an obstruction charge, Edward Cichan said: “It is complete lies....When they showed a warrant I said let me read it. They said, the last time we done that they ate it."

A woman in her 40s has died in a road traffic collision in Co Down.

A man charged in connection with a knife attack against a mother and two of her three children has been remanded in further custody.

A man waiting for a bus at Cork’s main bus station was approached by a stranger who engaged him in conversation before robbing him of €270 on threat of sticking a knife in him.

Antoinette Corbally, 48, and Clinton Shannon, 30, were shot outside a house in Ballymun on August 16 2017.

A man who set fire to the house of a detective who was involved in charging him with murder 20 years ago has been jailed for eight years.

A man, aged 47, was formally arrested and charged yesterday with having child pornography on a computer at his home two years ago.

A 14-year-old boy kicked and pushed his mother outside the juvenile court at Cork District Court moments before his case was called — yesterday the judge warned him he was on his last chance.

Gardaí investigating the murder of two-year-old Santina Cawley at Boreenmanna Road in Cork in July have taken 200 statements and followed 430 lines of enquiry, it emerged yesterday.

The barrister representing 25 landowners opposed to the compulsory purchase of their lands for a greenway in south Kerry has told the An Bord Pleanála hearing the board will be acting contrary to a 2014 European Directive and to Irish law if it does not grant an adjournment.

As with previous reports, the latest edition benchmarks progress, or the lack thereof, within mental health services against recommendations in the 2006 A Vision for Change document, launched by the government of the day.

The judge in the juvenile court of Cork District Court yesterday refused jurisdiction to deal with the case against a teenager accused of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to a two-year-old boy last March.

Timmy Long of 21 Churchfield Green, Churchfield, Cork, pleaded guilty to assaulting Steffan Liebig on May 8, 2018 at Hollyhill Lane.

Fianna Fáil councillor Fergal Dennehy has been found not guilty of intending to drive a car in the early hours at a time when he had excess alcohol.

Abandoned puppies, a goose entangled on discarded fishing line, runaway rabbits, dozens of homeless kittens and a lurcher dog in a shocking condition were among the rescue missions conducted by the ISPCA over the past month.

Christopher Phillips (78) died due to multi-organ failure following the incident outside a Dublin Church.

93 people have died in 84 collisions on our roads so far this year.

The former Garda press officer who helped run a smear campaign against whistleblower, Maurice McCabe, and then lied to the Disclosures Tribunal about the nature of his involvement is to get the bulk of his legal costs.

Gardaí were obstructed from gathering up horses in Cork but yesterday a 51-year-old man said his overreaction was because one of the horses was his last link with a son who had died a short time beforehand.

Criminal charges are being considered in relation to the death of a 39-year-old woman following a collision on the M50 in Dublin.

A Ballincollig man who was experiencing paranoia and who believed his mobile phone was affecting electrical devices terrified an elderly woman and her adult daughter by kicking in their front door.

Two Nenagh men chased a Cork man who sold them bad drugs — but when they kicked in the door of a house in Churchfield to find him they were set upon and seriously assaulted by neighbours.

A Garda with 15 years’ service was caught possessing cocaine after he was stopped and searched in Dublin 4, a court heard today.

The man who believed he was in London on May 23 when he was in Cork city centre was somewhere else again when his case was called at Cork District Court.

A man has been jailed for nine years for his part in a rural robbery on two brothers in their 60s in which the victims were bound with ties and tubing and badly beaten.

A meat factory worker told gardai that he ‘probably’ got the knife that he used on the factory’s ‘kill floor’ from his kitchen before using it to kill his poker opponent at their Cavan home.

A 57-year-old man who put his hand on the leg of a 19-year-old woman sitting beside him on a bus in Cork city has been found guilty of sexual assault, despite his claim it was merely an empathetic tap to say “be happy”.

A woman was put in fear when her ex-husband screamed at her to let their young son go to another soccer club after his team had lost yet again.

Osvaldo Rea had been running the popular Bistro Restaurant on the South Circular Road in Dublin for thirty years.

All-Star camogie player Ashling Thompson avoided criminal convictions for assaulting two young women at a nightclub in Cork on her undertaking to pay €6,000 to family refuge charities and to cover witness expenses.

A teenage member of a gang styling itself the Farranree Joyriders was identified when he posted pictures of himself on social media posing on two stolen motorbikes.

GAA All-Star camogie player Ashling Thompson pleaded guilty to assaulting a second woman at a nightclub in Cork.