A homeless Cork man was so desperate to get arrested that he decided to commit a bizarre crime, going behind the counter of a busy pharmacy and rummaging through boxes for D10 sleeping tablets.

Aidan O’Mahony, a garda and a footballer for Kerry, had to use quick reflexes yesterday to catch a chair hurled through the air at Cork District Court.

A YOUNG man crashed a stolen Honda Civic into a Garda car injuring the driver and then sped off and did not stop until he crashed and wrote off the car.