A young Corkman who has self-harmed was remanded in custody yesterday for allegedly putting his mother in fear at the family home.

Gardaí objected to bail being granted yesterday to a 22-year-old with mental health issues who put his mother in fear after he had been drinking.

Gardaí called to the home of a young man 30 times to check he was on a curfew but he never answered and yesterday he claimed he was at home every night but was afraid to open the door.

A Cork man had to call the gardaí because he was put in fear by his own son — and yesterday the culprit was jailed for three months.

A young Waterford man who was led astray by a woman he met when out drinking in Cork City broke into a house at The Lough when she told him it was her home.

Legal costs, paid for by the State, associated with the 14-day trial of a 23-year-old man who denied killing a father of four who had been training for the annual Ring of Kerry charity cycle in July 2012 have amounted to just under €70,000.

A protester used his skateboard to smash windows at the pub-restaurant Electric premises on South Mall in Cork in an action which his solicitor said yesterday was misguided, but the sentencing judge described it as anarchic.

New charges were preferred yesterday against a plumbing and heating firm following the 2011 death of a hotel guest from acute carbon monoxide poisoning in Kinsale, Co Cork.