Lawyers for a man found floating in the ocean next to 65 bales of cocaine have told the Court of Appeal that their client was a “bungling stevedore” in one of Ireland largest ever drugs hauls, rather than a “lieutenant”.

A Cork man denied raping his friend’s girlfriend in a case where it was alleged he got into a single bed with the couple and began having sexual intercourse with her when she was asleep.

The motorist on trial for dangerous driving causing serious injury to a neighbour saluted her the moment before she was struck across the legs by long iron bars that had gone sideways on his trailer.

A driver has been put on trial after a woman jogging near her home in Rosscarbery was seriously injured when struck with iron bars that came loose on a passing trailer.

A jury took less than two hours to reach a unanimous guilty verdict in the case of a priest sexually assaulting a schoolboy in Cork approximately 36 years ago.

A priest has gone on trial accused of indecently assaulting a boy in a Co Cork school sickbay in the early 1980s.

A child pornography prosecution was delayed by more than seven years, and yesterday no penalty was imposed on the accused, who took steps to address his difficulties in the interim.

The only evidence given by a motorist on trial yesterday for careless driving causing the death of an elderly man was to say to the family of the deceased: “I am sorry for your loss.”

A man dismantling a ceiling in a warehouse died after he sustained injuries when the platform he was working on fell to the floor.

A middle-aged man accused of sexually exploiting a 16-year-old boy at a shopping centre toilet was found guilty of the crime, in spite of the man’s claims the boy lied and gardaí stitched him up.

The jury in a serious assault trial has been told a woman suffered a stroke, brain injury, and various broken bones after being assaulted by her husband in the family home.

A jury has been sworn in to hear the case against a man accused of sexually exploiting and sexually assaulting his then girlfriend’s 10-year-old daughter.

A young man accused of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to his friend was found not guilty by the unanimous verdict of a jury yesterday.

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.

The investigation of a spate of burglaries throughout Cork and Kerry where over €90,000 worth of property was stolen led gardaí to the door of a Lithuanian couple where they found some of the stolen property.

Two girls were subjected to depraved behaviour by a man who showed them pornographic magazines and sexually assaulted them.

A convicted armed raider “touched himself inappropriately” while being interviewed by a probation officer, it emerged in court yesterday.

A cultural group dedicated to the archiving of film found itself under threat of eviction in Cork yesterday.

A farmer who demolished two fairy forts on his farm days after buying the land has told a court that he did not know they were fairy forts or ring forts.

A young driver “took his friend’s life” when he lost control at a junction and crashed into the pillar of a house in Co Cork.

A WELSH biochemist accused of supplying cannabis said she enjoyed smoking a pipe of her home-grown drug and that it inspired her to work hard on her land in West Cork.

Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents.

THE president unveiled the country’s first countywide place names archive yesterday and praised the man responsible for his dedication to the project over three decades.