A motorist who got into a dispute on the road with another man at a shopping centre denied deliberately driving at him and claimed that he intended to put his automatic car into reverse but it went forward instead.

A young woman was arrested and charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice during the jury trial of her boyfriend for firing a shot into a house in Cork injuring a woman.

Two Nenagh men chased a Cork man who sold them bad drugs — but when they kicked in the door of a house in Churchfield to find him they were set upon and seriously assaulted by neighbours.

A prisoner serving a jail term for raping a young woman in a public park was today given a further four months’ imprisonment for attacking a prison officer.

A Cork man accused of burglary was not inclined to accept that he should have his trial delayed because the prosecuting guard was absent from court due to the visit by Donald Trump.

Deals of cocaine were thrown out the window of a car as it sped away from gardaí and yesterday the driver was jailed for drug dealing and obstructing a search.

A heroin addict with a gambling problem found that ‘fishing’ money out of church collection boxes was the easiest way he could think of to pay for his addictions.

A man who was seen on CCTV having a 100ml bottle of Ralph Lauren perfume dropped into his hood by another man denied having anything to do with shoplifting and said he did not know the fragrance was in his hood.

Three young children were found in a highly distressed and dirty state at a house party in Carrigaline where gardaí found many empty beer cans and drug paraphernalia, including needles, tinfoil, and burnt spoons, on the floor.

Three young children were found in a highly distressed state at a house party in Carrigaline where gardaí found many empty beer cans and drug paraphernalia including needles, tinfoil and burnt spoons on the floor.

Garda surveillance cameras were used to prove a case against a man for dealing ecstasy tablets in Cork City centre in the early hours of the morning.

A middle-aged man threatened to smash his ex-partner’s face in and went on to smash her front door.

The driver of an articulated truck used both hands to take photographs of a serious traffic accident as he drove past it and yesterday he was convicted of careless driving.

A woman stepped out of her bathroom late at night to see a stranger in her apartment and yesterday the culprit was jailed for nine months for burglary.

Three Irish Examiner journalists have been honoured at the Law Society of Ireland's Justice Media Awards.

Two charges of endangering the lives of gardaí were brought yesterday against a 31-year-old man yesterday.

The pilot of a Ryanair flight from Tenerife to Cork made contingency plans to divert to Portugal because of the aggression from a Cork man and woman who insisted on having their paninis heated by cabin staff.

A man with Asperger’s syndrome was remanded in continuing custody yesterday in a case where he was accused of knocking his mother on the floor of a shop and kicking her in the head.

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

A Lithuanian man spat a few deals of heroin into a drain in an effort to frustrate a garda drugs search.

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.

A sentencing judge said street assaults frightened people and prompted calls for culprits to be jailed as the only solution but he said this was not appropriate yesterday in a case where a student was allegedly bitten on the cheek.

A student walking through Cork city had his hat snatched off his head and, shortly afterwards, was attacked and bitten on the cheek.

Two women enjoying the Cork Jazz Festival on MacCurtain St had the upset of having their handbags containing mobile phones and cash stolen from them.

A young man had a stash of 14 deals of cannabis in a shoebox in his bedroom. When gardaí asked him if he was dealing to pay for his own drug use, he replied: “That’s bullshit.”

A young man with cocaine visible around his nose and mouth boasted that his uncle was “an All-Ireland champion solicitor” and that he would have the jobs of gardaí and security staff at a nightclub.

Two brothers got into a fight with each other outside The Cow Bar in Mayfield and one got so aggressive with the garda who arrived on the scene he had to be pepper-sprayed.

Two Corkmen accused of carrying out three robberies, four burglaries, and stealing two cars in Cork and Waterford applied to have all charges struck out because of delay in the case.

A man with over 50 shoplifting convictions thanked a judge profusely for granting him bail yesterday and said: “We go back a long way, boy.”

A four-month suspended prison sentence was imposed on a Nigerian national remanded in custody for the past month because of a mystery over his identity.

Two men burgled a cafe at the Imperial Hotel in Cork City and tried to force a cash register off the counter under the cover of darkness — yesterday one of the culprits got a suspended jail term.

A householder who believed that a man was urinating in an alleyway beside his home confronted him in a threatening manner with a long knife.

A middle-aged man begging on the street was threatened by a man wielding a Stanley-type blade that he would “get it in the gut” if he did not hand over his money, it was alleged yesterday.

The home of a Polish man in Cork was subjected to a sustained attack by a gang of men who threw stones at the property, causing €4,000 worth of damage.

A Corkman was extradited from the UK this week and charged with dangerous driving causing the death, almost four years ago, of a young French man working for Apple.

Gardaí dealing with an extremely volatile public order situation in Cork City last Christmas time had to contend with two women calling the crowd to rebel against the gardaí.

A young man threatened to smash up his grandfather’s house and gardaí arrived to find the pensioner visibly shaken and in fear.

Families awaiting Santa Claus early on Christmas morning had to deal with the rumpus caused by a drunken man shouting and roaring.

A priest was put in fear when a drunken man held a bottle to him and threatened him after the priest approached a group of people outside a church.

A woman testified in court yesterday that her ex-partner was stalking her by following her around Cork City — sitting beside her on the bus, hiding behind bushes in a park and, on one day, sending her 72 texts.

A 90-year-old woman has been hauled into court and left facing a hefty legal bill for having an “unauthorised” satellite dish on the front of her house.

A hospital porter was tossed aside and injured as he tried to break up a fight outside Mercy University Hospital and was out of work for three weeks as a result.

A bench warrant was issued yesterday for the arrest of a 52-year-old man convicted of painting graffiti on headstones at a republican plot in St Finbarr’s Cemetery in Cork.