Three men appeared in Cork District Court yesterday on assault and damage charges arising out of an allegedly serious incident at a house in Bishopstown on St Patrick’s Day.

A computer expert who stole thousands of euro worth of property by buying it on the internet with forged credit card details yesterday repaid the full amount of compensation outstanding in his case — €3,560.

A computer-savvy young man used his knowledge to steal thousands of euro worth of property by buying it online with forged credit card details.

Two teenagers who followed two young women separately through the streets of Cork City, hitting one with a bottle and subjecting the other to a violent sexual assault, have been jailed for nine and eight years.

A 15-year-old boy stabbed a college student in the back with a broken bottle and then tried to hijack a car by punching the driver repeatedly in the face, shortly after the victim had collected his pregnant wife.