A hotel manager who was hoodwinked into giving inside information to a man who later stole over €27,000 from the hotel safe was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday.

A fisherman and father of seven facing a penalty for under-recording his catch of monkfish said yesterday he did not have the heart to throw a good catch over the side.

An “indentured servant” who worked in an elaborate 24m-long underground bunker for growing cannabis was jailed for five years yesterday.

A brother and a friend of a man who died in a Christmastime pub fracas in Cork were yesterday given suspended jail sentences for engaging in violent disorder.

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.

Two young men who were attacked and robbed in Cork City centre were terrified of being thrown into the river and yesterday one of the attackers was jailed for two years.

A chartered accountant who admitted stealing money from clients and engaging in an accountancy practice known as teeming and lading was given a four-year suspended jail sentence yesterday for the theft of €162,000.

A 15-year-old who ordered a householder to strip naked as a kettle of boiling water was thrown at him during a burglary, asked for bail yesterday so he could go fishing and mountain climbing and come home from custody at weekends.

A middle-aged man with no health insurance who was worried about the treatment of his chronic back pain resorted to dealing drugs to pay for medical care.

Two girls were subjected to depraved behaviour by a man who showed them pornographic magazines and sexually assaulted them.

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 father-of-two has been jailed for two years for a savage, unprovoked attack on another man in a pub in which he bit off part of his victim’s nose and spat it out.

A young man sustained a serious brain injury and also suffered a broken leg on a Christmas morning after being tossed into the air in an impact caused by a drink driver.

A businessman who defrauded a local authority of a six-figure sum in a parking disc and bin tags’ scam is still living a lavish lifestyle.

A 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty yesterday to his part in an aggravated burglary where a householder was ordered to strip naked as a kettle of boiling water was thrown at him.

A builder who lost his job after 25 years resorted to growing cannabis at his home because he could see no other way out of his financial problems.

A garda previously based in Killarney has pleaded guilty to two counts of defilement of a child.

Five convicted drink drivers won their appeals and avoided driving bans of up to six years yesterday after prosecuting gardaí failed to turn up.

The right of gardaí to enter onto the driveway of a private house in pursuance of an investigation was challenged in a court case in Cork yesterday.

Two teenagers who followed two young women separately through the streets of Cork City, hitting one with a bottle and subjecting the other to a violent sexual assault, have been jailed for nine and eight years.

A newly qualified psychiatric nurse was seriously injured by one blow struck in anger after a disagreement at a late night deli-counter queue and yesterday the culprit — who was never in trouble before — was jailed for three years.

A Londoner living in West Cork grew cannabis and paid workmen 2g of the drug per hour to build a house for him.

A security man heard laughter as he chased two young men who fled from where a Polish woman was struck across the back of the head with a Budweiser bottle.

Luxury cars, including two Porches and one Mercedes, were found outside the home of a man who stole over €123,000 from Cork City Council in a scam involving the sale of parking discs and bin tags to shops.

A West Cork man’s home was raided the day before his civil partnership ceremony and gardaí found cannabis being grown for the celebrations.

A mother of four who was caught twice dealing heroin in Cork City was described yesterday as a serious drug dealer.

A cultural group dedicated to the archiving of film found itself under threat of eviction in Cork yesterday.

“Blue murder” on the streets of Bantry last year resulted in two men being jailed for 18 months yesterday.

A young woman who stole rings valued at €60,000 from her mother and stole more rings from her grandmother was given a suspended two-year jail sentence yesterday.

A 15-year-old boy stabbed a college student in the back with a broken bottle and then tried to hijack a car by punching the driver repeatedly in the face, shortly after the victim had collected his pregnant wife.

The former assistant financial controller of Cork Opera House who created an elaborate scheme to steal more than €60,000 to pay for his cocaine habit was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday.

An elderly man has been banned from six schools near his home and ordered to notify gardaí of any plans to take a bus or train journey, because of his lewd behaviour on public transport and near schools.

A convicted rapist who had been released months earlier followed a student home and caught her around the neck, causing her such terror that she no longer felt safe to live in Cork.

The family of a 62-year-old operator of a Cork cleaning company, jailed for two years after admitting tax offences amounting to hundreds of thousands of euro, burst into tears at his sentencing yesterday.

Insurers paid €15m to a Cork chemical company following an explosion at its plant four years ago, it emerged yesterday at the sentencing hearing in a health and safety case.

An explosion that killed one employee and seriously injured another at a chemical plant was described as one of the worst in the history of the pharmaceutical industry in Ireland.

A former bank manager pleaded guilty yesterday to a charge of stealing €14,000 from the Bank of Ireland branch where she worked.

The man who sexually assaulted and threatened to kill a woman in her 60s who was on her way home from bingo in Charleville in North Cork was jailed for 10 years yesterday.

A German and a Corkman admitted yesterday to having €4.8m worth of cocaine in North Cork last year.

A mother who seriously injured her 18-month-old daughter by plunging her arm into hot water for being untidy with her toys got a three-year suspended jail sentence yesterday.

A passenger was paralysed for life after being catapulted through a rear window of a vehicle travelling at 160km/h in what a judge describe as an “insane” act of driving.

The family of a teenager killed in a car crash in Knocknaheeny, Cork City, in May 2010, has been given €100,000 in compensation.

DEBS ball celebrations turned into a nightmare for a young man who was chased along a city centre quay by three attackers who kicked him on the ground while one of them stabbed him three times in the head.

A BARMAN responsible for the day-to-day running of St Vincent’s hurling and football club stole almost €46,000 while working there.