Armed gardaí rushed to Blarney St, in Cork City, when it was reported that a man was brandishing a firearm. They saw the armed man hide behind a parked car.

A man has been arrested and charged with a count of assault causing harm to an 79-year-old man in Cork City.

Bizarre and disturbing texts were sent to a young woman in Cork referring to things in her personal life, such as her engagement, her home address and reference to a knife.

Prison officers escorting a man from Cork District Court observed another man slipping drugs to the prisoner in the courthouse.

Gardaí had to go to a Mass in Cork City to arrest a man who was so drunk he was a source of danger in the church.

A mother of four who was in dire financial straits filled a trolley with almost €600 worth of groceries and cosmetics and rolled it out of a supermarket without paying.

A man who threatened gardaí that he would find where they lived and get them was asked if he had a formal reply when charged with the offence and he said, “in one ear, out the other”.

A woman ripped open her blouse as she ran towards gardaí and claimed that officers were raping her.

A woman who was about to drive away from a filling station at night was dragged from her car and knocked to the ground where she hit her head, it was alleged at Cork District Court.

A woman who rushed at gardaí with a wheel brace over her head claimed yesterday she had been outside her home doing some work with the implement. In a similar incident a week later with a knife, she said it was a potato-peeler and she had been making the dinner.

A teenager jailed for a year for causing damage at a residential unit for troubled youths ran from the juvenile court yesterday and bolted the long corridor to the door of the courthouse in an effort to escape pursuing gardaí.

A teenager hoping to make “a few bob” before Christmas arranged through the DoneDeal website to sell his Xbox and games to a man in Cork City but the ‘buyer’ and his wife drove off leaving the teenager on the side of the street with no payment.

Two members of An Garda Siochána dealing with a domestic disturbance were assaulted by a teenager, with one officer knocked to the ground and the teen’s legs wrapped around her neck.

Two farmers in dispute over a right of way were told their behaviour amounted to “shocking rubbish” by a judge who convicted one of them for assault.

A man who was charged yesterday with dangerous driving causing the death of a young woman in a car crash in West Cork last April has been sent forward for trial.

Conditions for the final day of the ASM Marine Frostbite League at Kinsale Yacht Club on Sunday morning did not look promising initially but by race time the south-westerly breeze had strengthened to a welcome force three.

Despite early indications that a repeat of the previous two weeks’ unseasonal lack of wind would once again threaten to interrupt the league programme, the ASM Frostbite Series continued on Sunday at Kinsale Yacht Club.

A force 4-5 moderate to fresh northerly breeze heralded the start of the 2012 ASM Marine KYC Frostbite Series at Kinsale Harbour last Sunday.