A woman’s sleeping tablets were still being picked up free at the chemist on her medical card more than three weeks after she died, it emerged at Cork District Court.

Gardaí have charged 16 people with various counts of deception and making false reports in relation to orchestrated traffic accidents.

A man facing trial for sexually assaulting a young girl was kicked from behind in a shop by the girl’s uncle, who called him a walking dead man.

A mother had a frightening experience when a man who had overtaken her slammed on brakes a number of times before finally getting out and punching in a side window, spraying glass on her.

A man from the northside of Cork City, who claimed to be lost in the southside, was carrying a scissors when gardaí searched him, but claimed he had earlier been wrapping presents.

A former postman who stashed 100 undelivered envelopes under the sink in his kitchen and in his bedroom has progressed well with the new restorative justice programme, it emerged yesterday.

Shamrock Rovers fans looking for drink before a match in Cork City caused a disturbance in a pub and at the height of it, one of the visiting Dubliners kicked a local man in the groin.

The fact that a man got himself a job saved him from jail yesterday on charges of handling €2,500 worth of stolen copper sheeting.

Gardaí arrested a man they described as being caught red-handed with over €10,000 worth of heroin on the grounds of a derelict hospital in Cork, but he claimed that he picked up the bag by chance while out walking his dog.

A Cork man who had been placed under arrest subsequently used his head to escape from a Garda patrol car.

A former employee of Abtran, operating the Revenue’s property tax helpline, has been ordered to obey the directions of the probation service for a year for inducing members of the public to give bank card details by deception.

A Cork woman has confessed to 96 charges relating to a €20,000 social welfare scam where she made simultaneous claims for illness benefit in the names of three other women.

A murder charge was brought yesterday in the case where the body of a homeless man was discovered in a refuse chute of an apartment building in May.

The parents of an infant girl with “head-to-toe” skin infection were both convicted and fined yesterday for willful neglect of the child.

A former employee of Abtran, operating the Revenue’s property tax helpline was arrested yesterday and charged with inducing members of the public to give bank card details by deception.

Gardaí who responded to a call to a domestic disturbance were pushed out of the house by a man who then proceeded to strip naked in his front garden.

Gardaí yesterday revealed that 380 witness statements have been taken in the case against a 26-year-old man charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry, in June.

A 26-year-old man has today made his seventh court appearance over the double killing of a Lithuanian mother and daughter.

Visitors arriving by bus into Cork City received an unusual welcome — the sight of one man armed with a pickaxe handle and another with a different weapon at the main bus terminal.

The 26-year-old Lithuanian man charged with the murder of a mother and her daughter in Killorglin, Co Kerry, last month appeared at Cork District Court yesterday by video link from prison.

A 26-year-old man has been remanded in continuing custody charged with the murders of a young mother and her eight-year-old daughter in Co Kerry.

A man in custody at Cork District Courthouse was seen putting cannabis into his mouth after his girlfriend passed him the drug as he was being escorted through a corridor.

A book of evidence is being prepared in the case against a former lord mayor of Cork who appeared in court yesterday on six counts of sexual assault.

A man has been convicted for breaking a man’s jaw in two places in a row at a taxi cab base.

Smoking in a pub saw a man being asked to put out the cigarette but another man with the smoker assaulted the bar manager.

A 64-year-old man getting the last bus home from town was accosted by three women who demanded money and went through his pockets to rob him, and yesterday one of the culprits was jailed for eight months.

A 33-year-old Cork woman was arrested and charged yesterday with 17 counts of theft related to the fraudulent claiming of over €43,000 of job seekers’ allowance for a period of more than four years.

Five men are each facing five months in jail and six-year driving bans after being convicted of dangerous driving during a sulky race on the main Cork to Limerick road.

Improved journey times on the M8 motorway have seen Dublin gangs targeting Cork for burglaries, it was claimed yesterday, as three men were jailed for attempted burglary.

A mother of 15 who rarely gets out went “hell for leather” in a drunken row with another woman in Ballincollig, Co Cork, a court has heard.

A WOMAN working for years at a supermarket in Cork has been convicted of carrying out a series of thefts amounting to over €2,000 in a three-week period.

A PHONE salesman with a glowing reference from his former employer ended up stealing phones in his new job and selling them online.

Gardaí objected to an Eastern European man’s bail application today after he was charged with raping a young woman in Cork city.

IRISH middleweight champion boxer Spike O’Sullivan has been convicted of punching his ex-partner during a domestic incident outside her home.