GARDAÍ have started using covert cameras in Cork city and suburbs as part of an escalating crackdown on dangerous driving by ‘boy racers’.

TWO hero gardaí saved a 70-year-old man from being burnt to death after getting a 999 call that his house was on fire early yesterday.

A 74-YEAR-OLD priest in the diocese of Cloyne in Co Cork has been charged with three counts of gross indecency against a teenage boy.

FOUR men have been remanded in custody after they were charged yesterday in connection with a high-speed car chase across two counties.

SENTENCING of a postman who dumped more than 10,000 letters entrusted to him for delivery over a six-month period was adjourned for a month yesterday.

A POSTMAN dumped more than 10,000 letters entrusted to him for delivery over a six-month period and yesterday his “bizarre” behaviour was put down to pressures to mind his children.

A teenager was charged with murder today in relation to the fatal stabbing of a man in Blarney, Co Cork, over two months ago.

A DISTRICT judge has warned motorists who might be tempted to drive off without paying for petrol that he regards it as a mean and miserable offence and he will jail them for it.

A POLISH man has been charged with dangerous driving following the death of a 25-year-old woman last weekend.

WHILE you might not be able to evade the long arm of the law, in Cork, it is the long legs of the law you can’t escape.

A FATHER sobbed uncontrollably throughout a two-hour inquest yesterday, which heard how his 33-year-old wife and their eight-month-old son drowned in a stream.

AN INQUEST heard yesterday how a convicted drug dealer was shot in the head and neck, in what gardaí believe was a professional hit.

GARDAÍ were yesterday granted an adjournment of an inquest into the death of a 26-year-old man after they said they needed more time to complete their investigation.

THE Lithuanian Consul in Ireland has appealed to his fellow countrymen living in Cork to help gardaí trace a missing 33-year-old man who may have been murdered.

The man accused of the murder of Sheola Keaney was today further remanded in custody.

A CORONER warned motorists yesterday of the potentially lethal dangers of driving the morning after a night of drinking alcohol.

A MOTHER wept at an inquest yesterday as she heard conflicting evidence about the speed a driver was allegedly doing when he crashed, fatally injuring her 19-year-old son, a front seat passenger in the car.

“TO LOSE a child is a nightmare. We are now existing instead of living. Our once close-knit family has been torn apart. Sadly this is all down to one person, Mr Bloomfield.”

A DRIVER whose passenger was killed while they were following the Cork 20 Rally failed to appear at a coroner’s court yesterday to give evidence about the tragic accident.

HUMAN remains discovered in a field in Cork were last night being analysed to see if they are those of a man missing for almost four years.

One of the oldest sex offenders ever to come before the courts, a Brother of Charity who was addicted to the sexual abuse of boys for 40 years, walked free today after receiving a suspended three-year sentence.