A young man threw a petrol bomb at a house in a desperate effort to force his girlfriend’s parents to let her out at night “in a Rapunzel-type endeavour”.

Gardaí searching a house for drugs found a man on a phone flushing heroin down the toilet.

A man and woman were yesterday charged with robbery in a case where it is alleged a French woman on her way to work was attacked and robbed in Cork city.

A man caught with heroin for sale or supply outside a supermarket told gardaí the brown substance in question was gravy powder.

A man driving a 4x4 pulling a trailer with three horses got aggressive with gardaí resulting in him being pepper-sprayed and struck with a baton, but yesterday he claimed he was just anxious about the animals.

Gardaí in Cork have launched an investigation after a man in his mid-20s suffered serious stab wounds in an attack in the city this afternoon.

Three students sleeping in a house near UCC were attacked and robbed in the middle of the night, one of them being stabbed.

THE body of a Fermoy man was found on waste ground off a side road in Kerry with his hands bound in front of him with a white shoelace, the murder trial jury heard yesterday.

A GARDA spotted a shovel in a car and jokingly asked the driver if it was for burying a body — the driver is now on trial for murder.

A man being questioned in relation to the murder of a 27-year-old man in Cork last week has been released without charge.

A man remains in Garda custody in connection with a fatal stabbing in Cork city last weekend.

IT’s NOT every day a child can say they had a ride in a “roller” belonging to a twinkletoes millionaire Michael Flatley.

GARDAÍ launched a murder hunt last night following the brutal killing of a man who was missing for a week and whose body was dumped in a remote Kerry marsh.

THE prayers of a tight-knit community are being said for the family of a four-year-old boy who died in hospital yesterday, five days after being run over by a coal lorry.

ECSTASY tablets and cannabis were slipped to a prisoner as he was being escorted from a courtroom to a holding cell at Cork District Court, but gardaí observed the transaction and yesterday the woman who passed the drugs admitted the crime.

A Cork man who raped a teenage girl after he and his brother spent €300 on cocaine and alcohol has been jailed for four years by Ms Justice Maureen Clark at the Central Criminal Court.

A Cork man has been convicted by a jury at the Central Criminal Court of raping a then 16-year-old girl in a countryside area outside the city.

Gardai have released the names of the young men killed in a road accident in Co Cork this morning.