A man has been jailed for throwing a glass at another man in a Cork pub and instead injuring a dancing woman, who had nothing to do with the situation.

A 27-year-old man yesterday admitted the manslaughter of a 22-year-old mother-of-one but denied murdering her.

The victim of a city centre robbery was left frightened by the attack which happened as he walked to his city home shortly before midnight and two of those involved were jailed yesterday.

Spending on homeless services in the south-westrose 24% last year to over €7.4m as the region’s housing crisis deepened.

Cork City Council has advised that it has upgraded its Severe Weather Alert to level 3 status and it has activated its Crisis Management Team.

A taxi driver was punched in the lip by a Moldovan man who did not have money for his fare and tried to sell the driver a €400 phone for €25.

Two men were arrested and charged with carrying out a burglary at the home of an elderly woman while she was in hospital.

Cork Simon is planning to develop a €1m apartment project in the heart of Cork City to help break the cycle of long-term homelessness.

A 54-year-old man under court order to stay away from his ex-wife went to the canteen at her workplace and demanded she return her wedding ring to him.

A young drug addict who was desperate to get some money to buy Christmas presents pulled a knife on shop assistants in two shops in Cork city on the same morning but got away with nothing.

A man addicted to stealing cars is turning a corner in his life and is prepared, for the first time, to deal with his issues through the probation service.

A man addicted to stealing cars faced sentencing yesterday for two more such crimes and the judge asked of the culprit with 214 convictions: “What are we going to do, short of cutting his hands off, which I wouldn’t like to do.”

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 stolen car was driven at high speed though Cork suburbs in rush-hour traffic, crossing to the wrong side of the road, mounting a footpath where families were walking, and later ramming a Garda car.

SORRY for being a Luddite. Clearly this shouldn’t be a letter from the Web Summit: There shouldn’t be anything so old-fashioned as a pen and parchment missive emerging from this event to tell you what’s going on here.

A Polish man who organised prostitution in Poland tried to sexually assault two women in Cork city and he terrified another woman by strangling her with her own scarf until he fled when two men arrived on the scene.