A middle-aged man was viciously assaulted by a younger man armed with a baseball bat as he took a shortcut home through a housing estate after midnight with his wife.

Gardaí are helping worn-out parents keep children indoors and entertained while fighting crime during the Covid-19 crisis.

A 91-year-old man was allegedly the victim of a deception at his front door but the suspect left when he heard the voice of the pensioner’s daughter on an intercom.

A Kinsale man was arrested yesterday and charged with assault causing harm to a woman at an address on Lee Rd in Cork last week.

A judge hailed the return of a wedding band found on a beach as “a happy ending”, after Gardaí initially requested a forfeiture order after failing to find the owner.

An off-duty garda had to jump out of the way in a car park by his home when a motorist twice drove at him deliberately.

The garda armed response unit rushed to the scene of a reported incident in Cork city of a man carrying a bow and arrow.

Gardaí believe 'smiley faces' on speed detector signs are just as good, if not even more effective at slowing down drivers than GoSafe vans.

A man with 424 previous convictions was ordered by a judge to go back and mop the cell he was staying in after he had urinated in it.

A visit to a district court here by a delegation of judges from the Eastern European country shows the advantages and disadvantages of both structures, writes Noel Baker.

Christmas shoppers have been warned to take extra steps to ensure they don't leave valuables in view of "travelling gangs" that are targeting vehicles, including those parked housing estates, in the rup-up to Christmas.

Gardaí looking for drugs during a search at a property in Cork found a stash in a washbag down behind a shed in the garden.

A woman caught with €800 worth of cannabis in her car told gardaí the drugs were for transmission to Cork Prison.

A woman staying at hotel in Cork got aggressive with staff trying to calm her down outside her third-floor hotel room and even though gardaí arrived at the scene, she threw a tray containing glasses, teacups, and a kettle at the wall.

Hundreds of people gathered at a Co Donegal seaside village today to see GAA motormouth Joe Brolly get dumped into the sea.

Garda Barry Purcell, said that in his 12 years in the gardaí, he never experienced such an assault or aggression.

The Central Criminal Court also heard today that accused Paul Wells Junior asked gardaí to handcuff him in the district court as he was afraid he would attack his father Paul Wells Senior.

Meath Crime Prevention Officer Sgt Dean Kerins is urging bike owners to engrave their property with their eircode as a deterrent to thieves, especially targeting the higher end of the market.

The judge said he thought Alex Kane was “well capable of reforming” and having read a number of reports accepted that things had happened to him “that should not have”.

A man, aged 47, was formally arrested and charged yesterday with having child pornography on a computer at his home two years ago.

A group of friends stole a keg of Guinness by wheeling it down the road to a house in a shopping trolley.

A Garda whistleblower raised concerns about a colleague he accused of colluding with an Athlone heroin dealer having access to guns, The Disclosures Tribunal has heard.

A man has been jailed for punching a garda sergeant in the head when he was being served with a barring order secured against him by his mother.

A woman could face jail over the theft of bags of coal from a shop on four different occasions last winter.

Piotr Baram has been homeless in Ennis for a number of years. He was walking down the street in Ennis when he was knocked over by a bullock that had broken loose from the mart.

A 24-year-old man was arrested at a café in the early hours of morning for his ninth count of being drunk and a source of danger — but he said yesterday he did not have a drink problem.

Gardaí investigating the report of a midnight burglary at a barbershop found the culprit hiding under a table at the back of the premises with €30 in coins in his pocket.

The woman accused of murdering two-year-old Santina Cauley at Boreenmanna Road in Cork two months ago was remanded on bail yesterday until October 4.

A motorist who got into a dispute on the road with another man at a shopping centre denied deliberately driving at him and claimed that he intended to put his automatic car into reverse but it went forward instead.

A motorist is facing prosecution following the death of a teenager after she was knocked down in Cork on New Year's Eve, it has emerged.

Gardaí raided an apartment for a drugs search and a young man jumped out of bed and threw a packet of heroin out the window.

A verdict of accidental death was recorded after a 51-year-old fisherman on board a vessel in West Cork lost his life following an accident involving a trawler door.

More than 40 gardaí and eight support crew members have cycled 280km from Dublin to Cork to raise funds for sick children and their families.

An aspiring DJ found concealing heroin in his buttocks in a garda station has been given a suspended jail term of two and a half years.

Catherine Byrne stored over €190,000 of drugs and collected a shotgun to pay off her daughter's drug debt.

A man who was wrongfully arrested the same night his fiancée was savagely beaten by another man in a random street attack has been awarded more than €1.1m by a High Court jury.

A man who threatened to kill gardaí and rape their children when he blitzed a Garda station with a series of abusive calls from Australia has been jailed for almost four years.

A man telephoned gardaí from Australia and threatened to rape and kill a number of them and their children and then mocked their dead colleague killed in the line of duty.