A woman who bit the face of her ex-partner’s new girlfriend in what was described as a towering rage was found not guilty yesterday by a jury.

A man who admitted playing a game of “chase and tickle” with young girls on a summer day in 1996 but denied any indecency has been found guilty of sexually assaulting three of the girls during the game.

A teenager who bought tyres on eBay drove into a roadside and overturned his car causing serious injuries to a lifelong friend.

A security man heard laughter as he chased two young men who fled from where a Polish woman was struck across the back of the head with a Budweiser bottle.

A man accused of conspiring with his mother to attack his father and handcuff him to a bathroom radiator at a B&B in Cork claimed that the accusation was part of a Machiavellian plot by his father.

A convicted rapist who was due to be sentenced yesterday for terrifying a woman and her elderly mother in a knifepoint hijacking at a shopping-centre car park in Cork died on Friday.

A JURY was sworn in yesterday to hear the case against a man accused of having a machete and seriously assaulting another man.

A MOTHER of two who appeared to have used a total of only €2.66 worth of electricity for the entire four-month period from December to March last year was convicted yesterday of interfering with the ESB meter at her home.

THE jury in a trial related to the death of two teenagers on the road in Knocknaheeny last May was invited by the prosecution yesterday to take the view that the deaths were caused by the joint driving of the two accused.

THE saturation media coverage of the Northern Bank robbery in December 2004, in the Republic of Ireland was described yesterday in the trial of a father and son accused of laundering more than £3 million from that robbery.

THE trial of a Cork financial adviser accused of money laundering arising out of the investigation of the Northern Bank robbery will take up to 16 weeks.