Gardaí are questioning a man in his 30s after seizing €350,000 worth of heroin in the city centre.

Plans to double the number of community police in Cork will provide gardaí with the capacity to saturate antisocial blackspots with high-visibility patrols.

Gardaí in Cork believe they have dismantled an organised car-theft gang which was behind a spate of incidents in the city and suburbs in recent months.

A company has lost its High Court challenge over the HSE's refusal to enter into a community pharmacy contract (CPC) with it for a pharmacy on Dublin's northside.

Gardaí say they are adopting a “very balanced approach” to enforcement of the controversial new time-regulated bus lanes on Cork’s St Patrick’s Street.

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

A man who claimed that a clamper’s van struck him after a clamp was put on his wife’s car has been convicted of making a false complaint to gardaí.

The unusual theft of nine hares from a coursing club resulted yesterday in a young man avoiding a conviction for taking them.

Youths driving scrambler motorcycles on footpaths and green areas have become a serious issue for gardaí on the northside of Cork City.

Three Dublin men “beat the lard out of a taxi driver” and yesterday the sentencing judge said they could not avoid a conviction even though they were never in trouble before.

A man came out of a six-week coma in hospital and stole cash and a phone belonging to one of the doctors.

A Portuguese national’s random act of drunkenness saw him climbing up on the roof of a taxi where he jumped up and down causing €2,670 in damage to the car.

People have flown in from Romania to take part in organised begging in Cork City, a senior garda has confirmed.

Families have been forced to sell their homes in Cork’s university quarter because of a surge in anti-social student behaviour, the leader of the Seanad has claimed.

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

Bail was refused yesterday for a man who allegedly threatened a young woman he would hang her and petrol-bomb her home.

Alcohol addiction is far more serious in Cork and Kerry than drug addiction, according to an expert from the HSE.

A man wearing his pyjamas ran out of his house in the early hours of the morning and sprayed a neighbour in the eyes with Yves Saint Laurent perfume.

The number of people reporting sexual assaults and rape is on the rise in Cork city, according to new figures.

Gardaí had to wrestle with a teenager on the couch of his family home when he became aggressive and obstructive towards them while wielding a glass ashtray.

A man slapped his former partner across the legs during an incident at her home and, in another, refused to calm down at the house for gardaí and had to be pepper-sprayed.

A fishy excuse for having a knife in suspicious circumstances failed to get a man off the hook yesterday and he was ordered to do 200 hours of community service.

A 76-year-old retired primary school teacher was arrested yesterday and charged with sexually assaulting a nine-year-old schoolboy eight times in the early 1990s.

SIPTU has slammed as “atrocious” the treatment by C&C Group of workers at a water bottling plant in Borrisoleigh, Co Tipperary, who learned through the media that they are to lose their jobs.

Gardaí investigating the mysterious disappearance of a man in Cork City last month have issued a fresh appeal for a taxi driver and three other men to come forward.

The partner of a missing man has issued an emotional appeal for him to come home to their two young children for Christmas.

Hungarians hoping to get jobs in an apple-processing factory in Ireland were duped by a fellow national living in Cork into paying €156 each on the pretext that this would cover their flights and accommodation to come over to be interviewed.

A father-of-nine threatened to destroy a new €5 million Traveller housing facility in Cork city and told gardaí: “We’ll make your lives hell in the new site.”

A couple who split up repeatedly made complaints about each other at a local Garda station.

GAA fans attending Cork stadium Páirc Uí Rinn have been urged to park responsibly after residents complained of “feeling under siege”.

One of the biggest personnel shake-ups for years has taken place in the ranks of An Garda Siochána with six officers being promoted to the rank of chief superintendent and a further 34 inspectors elevated to superintendent.

Some 45 successful candidates for promotion to senior ranks in the Garda Síochána have been officially notified.

A man who slipped a can of beer down his trousers in a shop reacted to a security man by biting his arm. And when asked to sign the notes of a follow-up interview by gardaí, he ate the pages.

Gardaí say there has been no spike in burglaries in Cork city centre, despite several high-profile incidents targeting city centre businesses over Christmas.

Members of a family in Crosshaven called the gardaí when they were frightened by a man who appeared to be trying to get into their home in the early hours of the morning, but he claimed he was on his way to a party and got confused.

A 39-year-old man accused of raping his daughter 84 times over a two-year period appeared in Cork District Court yesterday.

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Two separate weekend assaults in Cork City left one man in a critical condition and a woman in need of treatment in hospital.

Gardaí are searching for a gang who tied up an elderly woman and her daughter before stealing "a substantial sum of money" from their home in a Cork suburb.

A mother of two who left her children playing in the back garden while she stepped out for a few minutes returned to find a stranger in the house with an iron bar and her son’s toy rifle.

The aftermath of celebrations of Sarsfields’ win in the Cork county hurling final in 2012 saw a serious attack on a man at his home by a father with his two sons.