The principal of a primary school who was suspended in June 2014 pending the investigation of a complaint that he assaulted a pupil with Asperger’s Syndrome denied saying to the school secretary afterwards, “I lost it”.

A man who harassed a woman for nine months had been hearing voices warning him he would be menaced by evil spirits if he disobeyed them, a court has heard.

Cork County Council faces the prospect of trial by judge and jury following the service of a book of evidence on the local authority yesterday.

Cork County Council appeared as a defendant in court yesterday in a health and safety prosecution arising out of the death of a workman during tree-felling more than two years ago.

Private solicitors working for the Director of Public Prosecutions were paid almost €6.5m last year.

The case against a priest accused of indecently assaulting a student in a school toilet on an unknown date in the mid-1980s has been dismissed after a trial at Cork District Court.

A plumber and his firm were yesterday sent for trial on separate charges to a circuit criminal court following the carbon monoxide poisoning, 18 months ago, of a hotel guest in Kinsale, Co Cork.

The right of gardaí to enter onto the driveway of a private house in pursuance of an investigation was challenged in a court case in Cork yesterday.

One of Cork’s most popular DJs suffered a massive heart attack after taking speed, an inquest heard yesterday.

TWO teenagers and a 20- year-old man will be served with books of evidence in a fortnight’s time on charges of sexually assaulting and raping a woman in East Cork two years ago.

MORE than 1,000 people packed a church in Co Cork yesterday to pay their last respects to a Circuit Court judge who was described as “a friend to everybody” and “a true man of the people.”

JUDGE Michael Pattwell, who sits for the last time today after 21 years on the bench, said he felt “honoured to be part of the system that puts people’s rights to the forefront”.

A SENIOR garda has won his appeal against a district court judge’s decision to hold him in contempt of court.

WEST Cork exhibitor Seamus Lehane had a highly successful visit to Limerick Show, where he took both the young horse and filly championships.

GAA legend Teddy McCarthy escaped a jail sentence yesterday.

LIVESTOCK exhibitors are back on the roads of Munster, heading across the county lines in search of winners’ red rosettes.

BREEDING came to the fore in the Irish Horse Board-sponsored Limerick Lady championship at the Limerick Show.

LAST week, promising young hurler Liam O’Regan wore his beloved Kilkenny jersey sitting his Leaving Cert.

A mother and father looked on in horror as their teenage son, a talented Cork hurler with a history of heart problems, collapsed and died while playing for his local club, it emerged today.

Tommy Barker says this unique parcel of land has a crannog, four houses and 90 acres of land in south Kerry.

SOME employers who have begun to track exactly what their staff are doing online from their work PCs have been stunned by what they have found and just what their trusted workforce has been getting up to on company time.

KILLARNEY and County Louth are two of the biggest and most respected clubs in the country. Both have produced some great players and characters but surprisingly neither has yet captured the Bulmers Irish Junior Cup.