A homeless man accused of attempted robbery this week claimed yesterday he was only trying to get back €120 that had been robbed from him.

A 60-year-old man was accused of sexually assaulting four women in separate incidents in the Douglas area of Cork and gardaí wanted a bail condition that he would have no physical contact with “females”.

Dáithí Ó Sé has found out that life is not just a bunch of Roses after he was arrested by the country’s youngest garda — for not eating his broccoli.

The arrest of a man who was accused of IRA membership was yesterday ruled unlawful by the Special Criminal Court.

A garda believed she would be choked to death when a “drunken” high-ranking British navy officer suddenly attacked her, the High Court has heard.

Bogus insurance claims and staged traffic accidents poison the atmosphere for valid claims as well as tying up gardaí and ambulance services to bolster the frauds, the sentencing judge said yesterday.

Gardaí have charged 16 people with various counts of deception and making false reports in relation to orchestrated traffic accidents.

A Garda acquitted of assaulting a teenager will not be the subject of a fresh investigation into the incident by the Garda Ombudsman, the High Court has heard.

There are a concerns for the welfare of a child who is believed to have gone missing from Cork City centre in the company of his mother.

Students planning a night out were offered almost €25,000 in taxi vouchers yesterday as part of a “get home safe” campaign.

Three Garda CCTV cameras have been installed around Cork’s university quarter as part of a wider crackdown on antisocial behaviour.

Visitors arriving by bus into Cork City received an unusual welcome — the sight of one man armed with a pickaxe handle and another with a different weapon at the main bus terminal.

Gardaí arrested a young man yesterday and charged him with the unlawful killing of a middle-aged man outside a pub in Mahon in Cork, last September.

Gardaí yesterday arrested a further five people as part of an operation targeting fraudulent motor insurance claims.

Neighbours say they are living in fear after fire ripped through a vacant city house for the second time in two years.

A new hi-tech system is being deployed throughout Cork City and county which will pinpoint the exact position of individual gardaí and their patrol cars, enabling a quicker response to emergencies.

A senior member of the group which represents the country’s rank-and-file gardaí has claimed plans to centralise 999 calls for all of Co Cork is “madness” and “will not work”.

A new computerised system is to be launched by gardaí in Cork as part of a radical shake-up of the force in the city and county which, it is claimed, will improve their service to the public.

Two men are dead and two more are fighting for their lives in a Cork hospital amid fears that a lethal batch of high-purity heroin has hit the streets.

Two men appeared in Cork District Court yesterday facing charges related to the weekend seizure of cannabis with a street value of €1.5m.

A grandfather who was left in a critical condition after a serious assault in Cork City at the weekend died in hospital yesterday.

A man charged with serious assault arising out of a fatal stabbing in Cork at the weekend has appeared in Cork District Court.

Two men received multiple stab wounds when a row broke out in a house in Cork City early yesterday.

A woman has died after being struck by a bus Cork city centre this evening.

A Cork drug dealer has been jailed for eight years for possession of £500,000 worth of ecstasy with intent to supply.