A gambling addiction got so out of hand for a young Cork man that he resorted to drug dealing to make money to bet and ended up leaving the country when his life was threatened.

A woman has been jailed for three years for a robbery at the Funky Skunk shop in Cork city centre.

A drug-dealer facing sentence for transporting €10,000 of cocaine from Dublin had the hearing adjourned, so gardaí could look into the fact that a member of An Garda Síochána provided character evidence for him.

A sum of €58,000 was mistakenly lodged in a man’s AIB account and, by the time the bank came looking for it back, the money was gone.

A shot was discharged from a sawn-off shotgun when a man who was threatening to shoot a woman tripped over her dog.

A father whose four-year-old daughter died found himself facing sentencing yesterday on a charge of assault causing harm to a man he met in Cork City in the hours after the funeral.

A talented boxer who used his skills to attack young men he encountered on the street and rob them, was jailed yesterday.

A voluntary patient at a psychiatric unit who was coming off drugs threatened to stab a nurse who challenged him for allegedly trying to supply drugs to another patient.

A little girl was repeatedly sexually abused by a family friend who groomed her for years and she kept the secret for more than 30 years until she could no longer bear it, a court was told as the culprit was jailed yesterday.

A couple who were at home in bed in North Cork were terrified when a man armed with a sledgehammer and a woman carrying an iron bar smashed their way into their bedroom and demand thousands of euro in cash.

A woman working at a pizza outlet in the early hours of the morning was put in fear when a man wielding a large knife jumped over the counter and robbed €1,500 in cash.

The trial of a man and woman accused of carrying out an aggravated burglary in the Mallow area while armed with a sledgehammer and an iron bar was about to start yesterday — but the two accused changed their pleas to guilty.

A 64-year-old Cork man was jailed for two years yesterday for sexually assaulting his own granddaughter four times as the child’s parents described their lives being turned into a nightmare.

A motorist was threatened that he would be cut open during a hijacking as the lead from a phone charger was looped around his neck.

A 62-year-old Cork man accused of setting fire to seven cars in his neighbourhood pleaded guilty to the arson charges yesterday.

A man who denied sexually assaulting his niece at a ‘This Is Your Life’ celebration at Pairc Uí Chaoimh was found guilty of that offence yesterday by a jury who deliberated for over five hours.

A man who denies sexually assaulting his niece at a This is Your Life celebration at Páirc Uí Chaoimh was accused by the prosecution yesterday of a character assassination of the complainant, by calling her malicious, vindictive and a liar.

A ‘This is Your Life’ celebration at Pairc Uí Chaoimh was the occasion for an indecent assault by a guest on his niece, it was alleged during a trial at Cork Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

A father and his three sons got suspended jail sentences and 240-hour community service orders yesterday for their part in a violent disorder in Cork where rocks and bottles were thrown.

A middle-aged man who was upset about texts he was getting from a younger relative made two attempts to burn down the apartment building where the relative was living.

A rape victim who was due to give evidence in a criminal trial was threatened that, if the rapist was convicted, she would be dead within a week.

A man confessed to setting fire to a building in Cork City centre creating a substantial risk of death or injury.

A rape victim due to give evidence in a criminal trial was put in fear by a woman who made intimidating comments to her in May 2011, before the trial began.

A woman used a baseball bat to attack her ex-husband’s new partner and, on leaving the scene, smashed up a parked van.

A WOMAN working as a carer for a 92-year-old man and his 89-year-old wife pleaded guilty yesterday to 16 sample charges related to the theft of more than €18,000 from the couple.

A RAIDER fuelled by vodka armed himself with a screwdriver to rob his local shop.

Two men accused of murdering a woman in a neighbouring apartment in Cork were heard whispering in their flat before she was killed and were seen leaving the block afterwards, a court heard today.

The mother of a 22-year-old Cork woman who was found strangled and raped in a derelict ruin in a park near her home identified the accused man in court today as the man she saw near the scene of the murder shortly after her daughter went missing.

The mother of a 22-year-old Cork woman who was found dead in a park near her home in 2000 told a murder trial jury today that when she was searching for her daughter she met the man accused of her murder and rape.