A Welshman in Cork was traced through his “Taffy dragon” email address downloading child pornography movies and images in 2010 and once again in 2017.

A Youghal man got upset when he saw his former girlfriend with her new boyfriend and attacked her and threatened to kill both of them.

A man was so worried about his mental health that he told a judge he did not want his jail sentence suspended as he felt that he would be safer in prison.

A woman was terrified by her ex-partner, who warned her to board up her house but said it would do her no good anyway, as he was going to kill her.

A taskforce set up three weeks ago to target begging and street crime in Cork City centre led to 15 people appearing in court yesterday.

A man who slipped a can of beer down his trousers in a shop reacted to a security man by biting his arm. And when asked to sign the notes of a follow-up interview by gardaí, he ate the pages.

A man has pleaded guilty to stealing in the region of €1,650 after being offered the use of a staff toilet at a small city centre cafe where he was having a cup of tea and a pancake.

A MAN was yesterday given an eight-year jail sentence, with the last three years suspended, for the manslaughter of a Polish man.

A Cork man accused of unlawfully killing a Polish man in his thirties confessed to the manslaughter today.

A POLISH man who sustained head injuries in a weekend attack in Cork died yesterday.

A Polish man in his 30s is in a serious condition at Cork University Hospital following an attack at the weekend and today a man accused of assaulting him claimed he was acting in self-defence.