The man who believed he was in London on May 23 when he was in Cork city centre was somewhere else again when his case was called at Cork District Court.

A 55-year-old man who burgled a house by leaning in the bathroom window to steal soap claimed that he only wanted to wash himself – but unfortunately, he failed to make a clean getaway.

A 55-year-old man facing charges including one where he was allegedly threatening while not wearing any trousers challenged the district judge’s knowledge of the law in court.

An applied maths graduate caught with five deals of heroin last year was caught on another occasion stealing ice cream.

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.

Two prisoners at Cork Prison were caught in possession of mobile phones during routine searches and each got a two-month term added his sentence.

A visitor to Cork City witnessed the man accused of murdering his girlfriend catching her by the throat and shouting at her in Cork City on Saturday afternoon before she was found dead early on Sunday morning in a squat.

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

A woman stepped out of her bathroom late at night to see a stranger in her apartment and yesterday the culprit was jailed for nine months for burglary.

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 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 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.

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.

An 11-year-old girl was left lying slumped on a road after being struck by a stolen BMW car that did not stop.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.