A middle-aged man was viciously assaulted by a younger man armed with a baseball bat as he took a shortcut home through a housing estate after midnight with his wife.

The biggest seizure of heroin ever made in Cork — a €350,000 stash — resulted in the accused man confessing to the crime yesterday.

A 91-year-old man was allegedly the victim of a deception at his front door but the suspect left when he heard the voice of the pensioner’s daughter on an intercom.

A Kinsale man was arrested yesterday and charged with assault causing harm to a woman at an address on Lee Rd in Cork last week.

A motorist who was banned from driving because of three previous counts of having no insurance was caught again when she decided to drive to hospital for a medical appointment.

The prisoner apologised unreservedly, and later complained that it was a disgrace and a joke for him to get a five-month jail sentence for the assault.

The garda armed response unit rushed to the scene of a reported incident in Cork city of a man carrying a bow and arrow.

A young Cork man charged with carrying out the robbery of €1,800 from a Cork city convenience store breached his bail eight times over the holiday period and was today remanded in custody.

A knife was produced by an agitated 28-year-old man during a domestic incident at his home over the Christmas holidays prompting his father to call the gardaí.

Gardaí looking for drugs during a search at a property in Cork found a stash in a washbag down behind a shed in the garden.

A woman caught with €800 worth of cannabis in her car told gardaí the drugs were for transmission to Cork Prison.

A book of evidence is being prepared on a charge against a member of An Garda Síochána accused of signing another person’s name to a document.

A woman staying at hotel in Cork got aggressive with staff trying to calm her down outside her third-floor hotel room and even though gardaí arrived at the scene, she threw a tray containing glasses, teacups, and a kettle at the wall.

A teenager admitted wrapping a neck chain around his fist to cause more injury to a man he was assaulting at a fast-food restaurant in Cork city.

The big crowd created a wonderful atmosphere in Ovens today, and while there was disappointment for the home fans in the 1,777 attendance, they couldn’t but be impressed with what Templenoe served up in this Munster club IFC semi-final.

Templenoe put on a brilliant display of football in Ovens today to book their place in the Munster club IFC final in two weeks. In front of a crowd of 1,777, the pre-match favourites were in terrific form and took the game to the hosts from the off. Killian Spillane and Stephen O'Sullivan leading the way sharing 12 points between them.

A seven-month jail term was imposed yesterday on a man caught in a church car park with heroin for his own use.

Timmy O’Riordan, 68, of 29 Fairhill Drive, Fairhill, Cork, pleaded guilty in June to a charge of assaulting Timmy Forde at Fairhill Drive, Fairhill, Cork, on July 16, 2018.

A motorist who got into a dispute on the road with another man at a shopping centre denied deliberately driving at him and claimed that he intended to put his automatic car into reverse but it went forward instead.

A man was jailed for five months on his 42nd birthday today for burgling a house in Cork.

A Douglas man who was sent home from court for wearing short trousers which were deemed unsuitable for a court hearing returned yesterday in a navy suit complete with decorative handkerchief.

Gardaí pursued a dangerous drink driver from Cork city to Ballyvolane where he crashed into a ditch, and gardaí found numerous open cans of Budweiser beer in the car.

A Polish man was remanded in custody until yesterday arising out of an alleged disturbance at Cork Airport on Saturday.

A man who was before a special court on Saturday charged with breaching a protection order was released on strict bail but he breached it within hours.

Someone could have been killed when a disqualified driver drove through a junction in reverse on the wrong side of the road in an effort to get away from gardaí, a court heard yesterday.

Gardaí seized €1,300 during a drugs search in Cork and today a man applied to have the money returned to him saying that a friend he visited regularly in hospital gave him the money as a gift.