A man involved in a fight tried to pulled a garda over a wall during an attempted arrest.

A district judge has jailed a man that forced his parents to barricade themselves into their bedroom to keep him away from them.

A TALENTED young soccer player who had trials for Glasgow Celtic has been jailed for four months for stealing beer and vodka.

A DIRECTORY highlighting new services for people seeking help for alcohol and drug abuse in the south has been launched.

GOVERNMENT officials have been accused of repeating the mistakes of Dublin’s 1980s heroin epidemic by failing to tackle the massive surge in cases in Cork over the past five years.

KENNETH Russell was meant to travel to Drogheda last Wednesday to start a new life with his girlfriend.

More than €1.5m is being ploughed into centres housing young people with drug addictions, it emerged today.

Heroin addicts in Cork will no longer have to travel to Dublin for their methadone treatment.