A 14-year-old boy kicked and pushed his mother outside the juvenile court at Cork District Court moments before his case was called — yesterday the judge warned him he was on his last chance.

A teenager involved in a crime spree in the Blackrock area of Cork City appeared at Cork District Court yesterday, where he pleaded guilty to a number of charges.

The judge in the juvenile court of Cork District Court yesterday refused jurisdiction to deal with the case against a teenager accused of dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to a two-year-old boy last March.

The pregnant woman who has been charged with the murder of toddler Santina Cawley in Cork has been further remanded in custody.

A pregnant woman in her 30s charged with the murder of a two-year-old girl at an apartment in Cork City told gardaí: “I didn’t murder no one”.

A pregnant woman in her thirties has been charged with the murder of a two-year-old girl at an apartment in Elderwood Park, Boreenmanna Road on the southside of Cork city on July 5th.

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.

A 46-year-old man is to stand trial accused of mortgage fraud in Dublin.

Environmental specialists working on the Bandon River flood relief project in the West Cork town have said they raised concerns with the company who subcontracted them about the porous nature of a haul road the night before it suddenly drained, leading to stricken fish become trapped.

A payment of €400 to the Garda Benevolent Fund could have spared a 41-year-old man his first conviction for assaulting gardaí but it emerged yesterday in court the money was never paid.

Ireland rugby Grand Slam winner Lynne Cantwell has been appointed to lead a major new drive to break down the barriers to women in sport.

Two Nigerian friends fell out because of mobile phones going missing during a trip to Nigeria — one man who was convicted of assaulting the other was put on a two-year peace bond yesterday.

A man could still face a month in jail or the prospect of his dog being put down after it bit an 81-year-old man in the leg.

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

A wheelchair user wept as he recalled how he was attacked as he slept in his specially modified camper van. He thought he was going to be killed.

A row over cattle fencing resulted in a man being convicted of assault and a second criticised for using inflammatory language in a case described by a judge as “a sorry mess between neighbours”.

The brother of a Government minister has been convicted of not paying the duty on a quantity of cigarettes after a senior lawyer for the Revenue Commissioners said the legislation in place does not allow any alternative.

A man who accepted €25 to give a lift to five people who mistakenly thought he was a taxi driver could face a fine of up to €5,000.

A pork factory was discharging effluent at “fish-kill level” into a stream that leads into a special area of conservation on the Wild Atlantic Way.

It’s a story that mixes Flann O’Brien and Liam Neeson’s role in Taken — how a farmer harnessed the power of social media and the West Cork bush telegraph to get his stolen coat back from a cycling Dutchman, and all within 24 hours.

An environmental health and safety officer for one of the three contracted firms being prosecuted for an alleged fish kill has said staff were incensed by an Inland Fisheries Ireland description of their actions as “panicked”.

A court has heard concerns that major drainage works on the Bandon River could be delayed unless an action brought by Inland Fisheries Ireland against three contractors on the project is resolved.

A man had “no recollection” of an incident in which he began undressing in a car park, damaged cars, broke into a vacant apartment and was later found by gardaí, naked and barricaded in a bathroom.

A woman has told how she feared for her life after being bombarded with 4,000 Twitter messages from her estranged husband that ranged from “nonsense” to death threats.

Four people charged in connection with an alleged cocaine extraction laboratory in a Bantry holiday home have been sent forward for trial, including on some new charges.

A woman with 151 previous convictions has been jailed for five months after she stole €900 from a “shy, introverted” man she had befriended on a bus.

A man has been sent forward for trial, on a plea of guilty, for trying to escape garda custody in a courthouse, and on a charge of assault, relating to the same incident.

The owner of a Kinsale restaurant has been fined after Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) found illegally caught wild salmon in a freezer.

An 87-year-old Corkwoman who saved to buy presents for her grandchildren had to fend off a shoplifter who tried to pickpocket her purse — and yesterday the victim spoke of her sadness at having her confidence dented.

One of three people facing charges of alleged criminal damage to a Garda station was arrested in court for intoxication. He later said he had drunk a bottle of whiskey and taken anti-depressants.

A solicitor representing a junior minister’s brother facing a charge of failing to declare €400 of cigarettes he had for sale in his shop yesterday queried why the Revenue Commissioners were seeking “a pound of flesh”.

One of four people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine extraction laboratory has been granted bail.

One of a group of people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine-extraction laboratory has been refused bail.

Four people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine extraction laboratory will remain in Garda custody ahead of a court date next week.

“I have only him. He is my everything. Now he is a different person.”

Judge Dorgan said: “He must think we are all awful eejits and we are not.”

A man has avoided a possible jail sentence in a case involving a dead cat, an attack on sheep, two bench warrants, and 11 dogs — three of which were apparently shot and one of which was poisoned.

A man who was already the subject of two separate driving bans was caught driving his son home from national school while over the drink-driving limit.

A judge has asked Revenue to reconsider if it wants to secure a conviction against a shopkeeper of “impeccable character” who had failed to declare €400 of cigarettes he had for sale.

A man in Co. Cork has been disqualified from owning or keeping dogs for 12 months after being convicted of cruelty to a dog.

Gardaí arrested a man and charged him with 14 counts of causing criminal damage to parked cars and business premises in the Union Quay area of Cork in the early hours of yesterday.

THE Health and Safety Authority has confirmed that it is considering expanding its current functions to undertake commercial activities.

SCHOOLS are not fully assessing risks of accidents for staff or students and fail to report all incidents, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) believes.

FARMERS have been urged to make safety a high priority to reduce the surge in farm fatalities.