A pint of Beamish stout is sometimes a cure for an injury on the northside of Cork City rather than a trip to hospital, a trial judge joked yesterday during a case.

A 37-year-old man who allegedly threatened a young woman that he would hang her from a tree and petrol-bomb her home will spend Christmas in prison.

Two men who knocked an elderly man to the ground and robbed him of €40 were jailed yesterday.

A businessman caught with 16,000 UGG-style boots and over 200 loose UGG labels denied breaching the Trademarks Act and said: “I thought about it definitely but I did not do it.”