A planned search of a cell by officers at Cork Prison resulted in a mobile phone being found in a prisoner’s underpants.

The man facing three charges related to a false imprisonment at a house where it was alleged that a gas cylinder was thrown down stairs at a garda, indicated yesterday that he would be pleading guilty to all counts against him.

A woman who stole 17 football jerseys from a shop claimed that she only went in to buy another item and never intended stealing anything.

An 82-year-old man from Glanmire, Co Cork, confessed yesterday to the indecent assault of a boy — some of the assaults occurring as many as 48 years ago.

An 82-year-old man from Glanmire, Co Cork, was arrested yesterday and charged with indecently assaulting a boy.

A former bookkeeper for the Brothers of Charity in Cork confessed yesterday to stealing more than €16,000 from the charity over a three-year period.

A 40-year-old man accused of multiple counts of raping his daughter over a seven-year period was served with a book of evidence yesterday.

It was a case of if the key fits.

A man who burgled a hair salon called back and admitted he was the culprit, but he also inquired about CCTV at the premises.

An eight-month jail sentence was imposed yesterday on a man who pointed a gun at a three-year-old child being brought to a creche.

The owner of a Jack Russell was so concerned about getting treatment for a persistent rash on the dog’s belly that he broke into a farm supplies store to steal sheep dip.

A 68-year-old man appeared in court yesterday accused of phoning a woman 150 times and leaving voicemails in which he allegedly threatened to kill her.

A dog walker and a motorist got into an altercation where she got out of her car and tackled him with an umbrella and he whipped his dog lead at her face knocking her glasses off.

A man who took exception to another man calling him ‘Boo’ in a chip shop queue punched him to the floor and later hit him with a stick.

Four women and two men from one Cork city family were arrested yesterday, as part of a lengthy investigation, and charged with various counts under money-laundering legislation.

A 19-year-old man who met a 16-year-old via the internet site Tagged had sex with her during a three-month relationship a couple of months before her 17th birthday and yesterday he was ordered to pay the €1,750 bill for her subsequent counselling.

A Russian national coming home from a night out in Cork City was caught with a canister of CS gas in his possession and claimed he did not know it was illegal, as in his country they were commonly available from newsagents.

A 49-year-old man admitted yesterday he stole over €5,900 from his former employers, the Blind Maker Ltd company in Cork.

Glaring discrepancies between the prosecution description of sexual offences at the centre of a case and the account given by the victim yesterday prevented the judge from proceeding to sentence the accused.

The investigation into the case of a man critically injured in an iron bar attack resulted in two accused facing more serious charges yesterday at Cork District Court.

Gardaí with a warrant carried out a search at a house on Dublin Street in Blackpool and found over €5,000 worth of drugs, some of them in a grow tent set up with a special light and extractor fan.

Teenagers who met via the internet site Tagged ended up going out together for three months and having sex. Two years later the girl made a complaint against the man to gardaí.

A keg of beer was rolled down a flight of steps at a garda as he investigated a drunken disturbance.

A young man was stuck in the boot of a car driven at high speed through the northside of Cork City before it crashed, it emerged at Cork District Court.

A teenager who slowed his car and made threats against a young woman out walking her dogs, will be sentenced next week on the charge of engaging in threatening behaviour.

An 82-year-old former principal and priest yesterday denied 12 counts of indecently assaulting children at Colaiste Chroí Naofa school in Carrignavar around 40 years ago.

A man with a nodge of cannabis bucked the trend of discarding the drug as the gardaí approached — and proved the exception to the rule by deciding to pick it up as the gardaí arrived.

A man accused of contacting a Garda confidential line identifying a named soldier in the Irish army as a “legitimate target” has been told to stay off Facebook and other social media as a condition of his bail.

A woman was attacked by her ex-partner, dragged into an attic room, gagged and tied to a chair with tape — and feared she was going to be murdered — a garda alleged in court yesterday as he objected to bail being granted to the accused man.

The owner of a car crashed and abandoned in Bweeng, Mallow, Co Cork, made a statement to gardaí that his car had been stolen on the night. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty to a charge of making a false report.

Members of the gardaí, Cork fire brigade, and security personnel had to cordon off part of the city centre when a drunken teenager climbed on to the roof of Debenham’s department store in the early hours of the morning.

A plumber with a gambling problem was jailed for eight months for charging a woman more than €3,000 to install a bathroom when all he did was dig a small hole in the footpath.

Attempting to walk out of a supermarket late at night with bags full of €432 worth of unpaid items was so blatant it was almost asking to be caught.

Diners outside a busy hotel witnessed a man strip to the waist and make violent threats against a member of An Garda Síochána shouting at one stage that he would bite his eyes out.

A man in a chip shop punched another man to the floor and went away to get a stick to attack him again because he took exception to the injured party calling him by his nickname — Boo.

A teenager put the middle finger of both hands up to gardaí and then threw stones at them, flashed his backside and threatened that he would rape their wives.

A district court judge yesterday dismissed a shoplifting case because Dunnes Stores did not send a representative to explain why the time and expense of a Garda prosecution was necessary where a man stole Paracetamol priced €1.99 from one of its shops.

An off-licence was yesterday ordered to close its business for 48 hours for selling a bottle of wine to a girl under the age of 18.

A prisoner yesterday had four months jail added to his sentence after assaulting a prison officer with a slap across the face.