A woman who was arrested allegedly with cocaine while entering a bingo hall in Cork City is to have a copy of the prosecution evidence sent to her solicitor.

Frostiness between two competing ice cream vendors in Cork City melted yesterday as they each withdrew accusations of being assaulted by their rival.

Anyone assaulting a garda, hospital staff or members of the emergency services was at risk of a jail sentence, a judge warned yesterday as he sentenced a man to four months for such a crime.

A priest was spat upon in St Augustine’s in Cork City by a man who has caused a lot of problems for clergy and staff at the church.

A Garda who tried to stop a drunk driver was pulled a short distance along beside the car as the motorist took off through Carrigaline.

A man accused of raping a woman four times in one night last January breached his bail conditions by leaving Cork for an art exhibition and failing to return for two days.

A homeless Cork man was so desperate to get arrested that he decided to commit a bizarre crime, going behind the counter of a busy pharmacy and rummaging through boxes for D10 sleeping tablets.

A teenager and his uncle were convicted yesterday of clobbering a man over the head with hockey sticks after he had driven into a suburban cul de sac hoping to find a bit of gardening work.

A man has been jailed for a kung-fu style kick on a garda which resulted in her requiring medical attention.

Charges against a woman accused of driving over a man’s foot at a road-bowling match have been dismissed.

A man who bit off part of his brother’s ear in a fight spat the piece of skin into the face of a member of An Garda Síochána.

One of the most celebrated chefs in the country has been given a four-month suspended jail sentence for smashing in the door of his ex-partner’s home.

The case against a priest accused of indecently assaulting a student in a school toilet on an unknown date in the mid-1980s was put back for more evidence on the complaint to be supplied to the defence.

A ‘stoned’ burglar got into the garage beside a house in Sunday’s Well in Cork in the middle of the night and stole bank documents from a car.

More than 20 canaries and three bird cages were plucked out of an aviary and the burglar who swooped for this unusual theft was sentenced to five months behind bars yesterday.

A 75-year-old sacristan was spat on and slapped across the face when he told a drunken man to stop shouting in a church.

The maximum possible sentence of six months for driving without insurance was branded as a joke yesterday by a district court judge dealing with the case of a man with 20 previous convictions for the same offence.

A 31-year-old man who robbed a 64-year-old as she prayed in a church said he was ashamed of his actions but that he was “strung out” at the time.

The Lithuanian man charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry, in June, will be contesting the case against him and pleading not guilty to both counts, it was confirmed yesterday.

A man has admitted robbing a 64-year-old woman while she prayed.

A young man squared up to a member of An Garda Siochána at the height of a melee outside the Savoy in Cork City and wanted him to have a fight.

A man who was accused of carrying a knuckleduster after his arrest at a road checkpoint claimed yesterday a garda told him the charge would be dropped if he supplied information on crimes.

A 36-year-old man charged with the murder of a mother of three in Passage West last February was formally arrested and charged with a new count of arson yesterday.

A man accused of dangerous driving of a motorised vehicle with a registration number applied to have the charge struck out yesterday on the basis that he was in a horse-drawn vehicle at the time.

Two sisters accused of stealing €300 from the handbag of an 81-year-old woman in Cork said they were anxious to get out of jail to look after their children as it was hard on their own elderly mother to have to mind them.

A 26-year-old man was charged with a count of assault causing harm following the investigation into the body of a homeless man found dumped in a refuse chute in Cork earlier this month.

A Polish nanny who was paid €250 to mind a child, five days each week, yesterday confessed to stealing thousands of euro worth of jewellery and clothing from the family’s home

A 79-year-old man, never in trouble in his life, denied grabbing a young woman’s breast in a lift at Blarney Woollen Mills. And he told a court: “If it was to free Ireland, I would not do it at all, ever.”

A bra thief involved in a bust-up with store security had 33 previous convictions, more than half for stealing, a court has heard.

Serenading a bouncer at Hillbilly’s in Cork city centre resulted in the singer being punched in the face.

A pharmacy employee who is seven months’ pregnant had petrol thrown on her face by a man who then lit toilet paper which he threw in her direction, it was claimed yesterday.

A publican accused of threatening to return to Heineken’s headquarters in Cork with a shotgun in a commercial row over beer supply will spend the weekend in jail after he refused to give an undertaking to stay away from the premises.

A teenager’s celebrations of his 18th birthday party with friends turned into the ransacking of their local school and almost €10,000 in criminal damage.

A Portuguese Apple employee, who was under pressure to repay Russian drug dealers in Cork and stole two iPhones from the company’s base in Hollyhill, has received a four-month suspended sentence.

The Garda file in the case against a woman accused of threatening to kick a pregnant woman in the stomach during an alleged robbery is still being prepared.

Five Chinese nationals facing charges related to the alleged seizure of €668,000 worth of cannabis cultivated at a business park unit in Rathcormac, in North Cork, will be going to the High Court to seek bail later this month.

Two men were arrested yesterday and charged with engaging in violent disorder at the Manhattan Bar in Togher, Cork, last Christmas, arising out of an incident where a man was killed.

Over €2,500 in cash was returned yesterday to an 86-year-old woman who was dragged around her home and tied up during an aggravated burglary.

TWO young men ran away from a taxi without paying a €23 fare and then used a shovel as one tried to assault the pursing driver and the other man smashed the windscreen.

A 61-YEAR-OLD hackney driver who was fined for offending public decency by exposing himself in his car testified yesterday he had pulled down his pants and underpants to apply Diclac gel to a sudden spasm in his lower abdomen.

A SQUABBLE between housemates about rent spilled over outside a supermarket as two men attacked a third while he loaded shopping into his car.

GARDAÍ arrested a man yesterday and charged him with assault causing harm to another man at a pub in Cork City.

A CORK city shop owner alleged yesterday she was being harassed at her premises by a Romanian woman who appeared in court on a charge of shoplifting.