The Tusla official who visited the home of the family reported that the defendant’s wife seemed to be preoccupied with undermining the defendant and she may have coached the children in their complaints.

A former officer of Gurranabraher credit union who confessed to the theft of more than €300,000 from her employer over a period of several years said through her barrister that she would have €10,000 compensation in court by Friday.

A man who knocked another young man unconscious with a single punch while he was socialising in a Cork city centre pub was jailed yesterday for six months.

A man has been jailed for throwing a glass at another man in a Cork pub and instead injuring a dancing woman, who had nothing to do with the situation.

A young man took exception to being handed five one-euro coins instead of a five-euro note and ended up assaulting the young woman working

A young man at a bus stop in Cork city centre was punched a number of times in the head in a random unprovoked attack.

A 38-year-old man who got into rehabilitation and managed to stay off drugs such as cocaine for a year fell back into addiction when he suffered a severe ankle fracture and was prescribed codeine.

A 62-year-old man accused of harassing a woman in her 40s was brought before Cork District Court yesterday.

A man begging on the street was caught with a knife down in his pants but he claimed the only reason he carried it was that he was sick of people taking the cup he used for begging.

Patients and staff at the accident and emergency unit of Mercy University Hospital were verbally abused by a drunken man who had been brought their by ambulance for medical attention.

A 31-year-old man verbally abusing people at Wilton shopping centre in Cork was later found to be carrying a knife in his jeep.

A man acting as a carer for an 81-year-old wheelchair-bound neighbour was fined €1,200 and given a suspended five-month jail term for using the pensioner’s bank card to steal cash.

A married woman in the process of separation was terrified when her husband and a “mad-looking” man wearing a foxy wig and headband banged the roof and windows of the van in which she sat with a friend.

Gardaí investigating an unrelated crime discovered stashes of cannabis in a caravan and concealed nearby in a ditch.

A security man at the Voodoo Rooms in Cork had his nose broken by a customer.

A householder reacted quickly when a man tried to set fire to the front door because of a drugs debt.

A motorist using the Merchants Quay car park in Cork City caught a member of staff by the throat, video-recorded him and threatened to knock him out.

A man in a row at a hospital was carrying a small knife — but his solicitor said the accused was so drunk he was blissfully unaware of the incident until he was told about it from the prosecution evidence.

Two prisoners at Cork Prison were caught in possession of mobile phones during routine searches and each got a two-month term added his sentence.

A hospital patient who videoed a nurse and threatened to follow her home was given a suspended eight-month jail term yesterday on serious assault charges after evidence that he had successfully attended for treatment for his problems.

A Leaving Certificate student at a private school in Cork got the fright of her life on the first day of her exams when she emerged from a cubicle in the school toilets to see a man unzipping his trousers and talking to her in a sexual fashion.

A passenger who assaulted a taxi driver in a dispute about a fare has been ordered to pay €1,300 for damage to the car to avoid spending five months in jail.

A drunken man threw his mobile phone on the ground in anger and shouted abuse at people who walked past him in the Bishopstown area of Cork was yesterday jailed for two months.

A Young Offenders cast member who admitted shoplifting twice at Blarney Woollen Mills had a horrendous history of offending, the sentencing judge said.

A young woman claimed her ex-boyfriend threatened to slice her face and rip her in two, during an alleged incident last weekend. But the accused denied being present, denied making threats, and insisted he was never her boyfriend.

A man swallowed a handful of tablets as gardaí went to search him in connection with a drug-dealing investigation.

A father of five who caused a hazard by parking three caravans on the side of a busy road has claimed he was saving the taxpayer a hefty bill to house his family in a hotel.

A 26-year-old League of Ireland soccer player who also played cross-channel blew cigarette smoke into the faces of gardaí in Cork and warned he would randomly assault a member of the public if they did not arrest him.

A Polish primary school teacher was extradited to Ireland to face a charge of sexually assaulting a woman at a nightspot in Cork City when he was visiting for a two-week English language course.

A woman in her 70s was duped into letting a man into her Cork City home to inspect her boiler. When the man was gone she discovered that her handbag had been stolen.

The man convicted of murdering the mother of his child ‘lost control and exploded’ over fears she had cheated on him. Liam Heylin followed the case.

Liam Heylin’s latest play revolves around four corvids on the streets of Cork, writes Colette Sheridan.

A more mature Mark O’Rowe says his new play has eased off on the visceral approach that marked his earlier work, writes Liam Heylin.

Clarification: In the Irish Examiner of January 24, we published an article concerning a man who was fined €500 at Cork District Court on January 23 for obstructing a drugs search. The address of the defendant was given in court as 7 Beechwood Grove, Onslow Gardens, Commons Road, Cork.

A paid carer companion pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of stealing €600 from a woman with a mild intellectual disability.

A woman caught trespassing with her boyfriend at the court building being renovated in Cork claimed they needed “some private time”, writes Liam Heylin.

The councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Britain’s Queen Victoria had his evidence translated from Irish in Cork District Court yesterday, but he said the Irish-language issue in the proceedings should be referred to the High Court, writes Liam Heylin.

A couple who were homeless broke into a house in the hope of finding a place to stay and yesterday they were both jailed for four months.

A Cork man drove aggressively through a red light killing a French man in Cork city, then drove off and fled the country, and today he was jailed for eight years and banned from driving for 40 years.

A motorist who was caught drink driving for the 11th time was jailed yesterday.

A book of evidence was served today on a 17-year-old charged with sale or supply of the psychoactive drug U47700 arising out of the investigation of the death of a teenager in Cork in January.

A young woman claimed she was sexually assaulted in a hotel room in Cork after meeting a man at a night spot in the city.

Thirst should be easily quenched in the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh, which is due to open to GAA fans next week.

A 50-year-old man set fire to his family home with his four young children inside but he got them out before the fire took off and went back into it alone in a suicide attempt, writes Liam Heylin.