Heroin worth €17,000 was carried “almost nonchalantly” by a man travelling by bus from Dublin to Cork and yesterday he was jailed for his drugs crime.

A social worker was found not guilty yesterday of getting monthly child support payments from a mother of five whose children were in care and did not pass these payments on to the foster carers.

A social worker got monthly child support payments from a mother of five whose children were in care and did not pass these payments on to the foster carers, it was claimed at a trial yesterday.

A ‘Scream’ mask was worn by a man who carried out a robbery at a sweetshop in Cork city and yesterday he confessed to the crime.

A man who suffered a serious eye injury was threatened that he would be put in a body bag and his dog would be killed if he testified about assault, it was claimed during a trial.

A jealous rage saw a man threaten to cut off the head of his ex-partner’s male friend, as he held a knife in one hand and used his phone to make a video recording with the other hand.

A 72-year-old man on trial for impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death was cleared of the charge yesterday.

A debit card belonging to a 72-year-old man who denies impeding the prosecution of his son for a fatal hit- and-run was used to pay for his son’s flight to Australia following the incident, a jury was told yesterday.

A jury took four hours to deliver a not guilty verdict in the case against a man accused of falsely imprisoning his mother’s friend during a violent siege.

A 29-year-old Cork man who was making a threat to kill a woman in Cork accidentally discharged a shotgun during the incident, it emerged yesterday.

A man who effectively tortured his pregnant girlfriend by pouring boiling water over her, after first adding sugar to the water increasing its boiling point, has been given extra prison time by the Court of Appeal.

A man who downloaded images of child pornography was not detected but presented himself at his Garda station with the hard discs of two computers containing the material.

A bank official stole over €44,000 from the AIB in Co Cork where she worked over a period of several years was yesterday given a three-year suspended sentence.

A man who had part of his three-year jail term suspended in a harassment case in which he sent a thousand emails to his ex-girlfriend may have breached the terms of the sentence with alleged attempts to contact her from prison.

One thousand ‘missed calls’ along with a thousand emails were directed to a woman by her ex-boyfriend, long after the relationship had ended.

A 30-year-old man was put on trial yesterday for allegedly threatening to put a gun to his aunt’s head and to burn down her house after she inherited the property from her mother and decided to sell it.

An energy therapist who carried out a bizarre campaign of blackmail against his sister-in-law and her husband wrote an apology to them while remanded in custody for the past week.

A teenager who represented Cork in the sport of pitch and putt became addicted to prescription tablets and ended up being jailed yesterday for accosting people on the street to rob them of small amounts of money.

An energy therapist got the idea from a sex addict patient to make up a story about his sister-in-law’s husband and he then set about a bizarre campaign of blackmail.

A social worker was threatened in voicemails from the parents of a child that they would dance on top of her arising out of a dispute about the manner of an access meeting with the child.

A restaurateur who was chased around his premises in Cork by a man armed with a broken bottle had to pick up a chair and part of a vacuum cleaner to fend off the attacker, who was jailed yesterday.

Pinocchio’s toy shop in Paul St, Cork City, suffered a damaging blow days before Christmas when it was burgled, with €1,200 taken and the bank card machine smashed.

A Carrigaline teenager who said he had a gun put to his head and was ordered to carry out an armed robbery to clear a drugs debt, was jailed for three years yesterday.

Two Kerrymen who were jailed two months ago for the “very mean” crime of stealing €11,000 from a 79-year-old Corkwoman for a €400 job on her roof were given suspended jail sentences yesterday.

A Tralee man who grew cannabis in Mayo could find no place to stay on a journey to Mallow so he called to the local Garda station looking to stay there — with a bag of homegrown cannabis in his hand.

A Co Cork man threatened to carry a shotgun on the city’s MacCurtain St in an attempt to get himself killed by drawing the fire of armed gardaí. He was remanded in custody.

A 79-year-old Cork woman was preyed upon by two Kerry men who quoted her €400 to repair her roof and then went on to get €11,000 in cash payments from her in “a very mean” crime.

A former Christian Brother at Cork’s North Mon, who was due to be sentenced for sex assault, attempted suicide in the early hours of yesterday.

Two teenagers who got their first experience of jail when they were remanded in Cork Prison on Friday for numerous breaches of their bail were shocked to be in the prison when an inmate was stabbed to death.

A nurse at Mercy University Hospital in Cork City was punched in the side of the face by an unruly patient who was being asked by another nurse to calm down. The culprit was yesterday jailed for two years.

A 42-year-old man who groomed a 14-year-old girl over Facebook and texted her to meet him for oral sex was jailed yesterday in what is one of the first cases of its kind before the courts.

The jury in the case of a former Christian Brother who denied charges of indecently assaulting a primary school boy in the 1970s reached verdicts of not guilty yesterday after two-and-a-half hours of deliberation.

The former Christian Brother on trial on charges of indecently assaulting a primary school boy in the 1970s testified yesterday that he might have put his arm around a boy by way of encouragement but he denied anything of a sexual nature.

A former Christian Brother has gone on trial in Cork on charges of indecently assaulting a primary school boy in the 1970s. The judge and jury were told yesterday of the complainant’s nightmares of ghosts of men in black.

An octogenarian drug-dealer who was caught with around €60,000 worth of cannabis for sale was spared a jail sentence partly because of his age and ill health.

A row over darts led to a man being struck on the head with a hammer.

A man on trial for biting part of his cousin’s ear off said he never assaulted the relative and claimed yesterday that the complainant had asked his father for €20,000 to drop the case.

A man went on trial yesterday for allegedly biting part of his first cousin’s ear off and spitting it into his face.

The imprint of a shoe or a boot was found on the face of a man whose head was stamped on in the smoking area of a city centre pub in a violent attack.