Gardaí in West Cork are seeking to honour young people who have done outstanding voluntary work in their communities.

29 people were also arrested during the rugby tournament in Co Cork.

Gardaí have advised school authorities to take precautions around the collection and management of cash after a man was charged in connection with a burglary at a school in West Cork.

Coastal communities and fishermen can play a key role in the war against international drugs smuggling.

Gardaí are investigating a vicious assault on a 73-year-old man who was beaten around the head and body and left with a punctured lung when attacked in a van in which he was sleeping.

A man in his 70s has been left seriously injured after an assault in Co Cork in the early hours of this morning.

A man who was extradited to Ireland and then charged with 42 charges including sexual assault and rape has been sent forward for trial.

The 51-year-old unemployed man had been arrested at Dublin Airport on Wednesday and charged later that day in Bandon garda station.

Gardaí have continued to question a woman in her 40s in relation to the fatal stabbing of a man in Macroom, Co Cork, in the early hours of Monday.

Three men are being quizzed on suspicion of drug trafficking and an impounded yacht is being searched under armed guard following a multi-agency intelligence-led operation off the coast.

A young boxer from Tipperary who competed at a national level was jailed yesterday for causing a disturbance at Cork University Hospital.

Four people arrested and charged in connection with an alleged cocaine extraction laboratory will remain in Garda custody ahead of a court date next week.

Gardaí in the Macroom area caught a man dealing €11,000 worth of cocaine at a time when he had a suspended jail term hanging over him for another drug-dealing offence.

Gardaí in Skibbereen Co Cork investigating the death of John Ustic last September have released without charge a man in his 20s, who was arrested in connection with the investigation.

A man who was already the subject of two separate driving bans was caught driving his son home from national school while over the drink-driving limit.

An elaborate growhouse with €66,000 worth of harvested and growing cannabis was uncovered in a remote area near Macroom and yesterday the man responsible was jailed for three years.

Three men remain in Garda custody in connection with burglaries and criminal damage in County Cork.

AT A macro level, it was ignorance, not a deliberate abuse of power. At a micro level, and in one microcosm in particular — Bandon Garda Station — things were a lot murkier, with talk (though no proof) of evidence tampering and improper conduct among certain gardaí.

Recordings of calls by several gardaí who had key roles in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder investigation show they considered altering and suppressing evidence to bolster their case against Ian Bailey.

The Fennelly Commission report into the mass recording of telephone calls in Garda stations for decades has found the practice was not lawful, but no criminal cases were significantly affected by the practice.

A mammoth GSOC inquiry report regarding the Garda investigation into Ian Bailey could be published as early as this week.

A 72-year-old West Cork pharmacist was remanded in custody for a month yesterday as her sentencing for what the judge described as egregious criminality was adjourned.

A four-year Garda Ombudsman inquiry into the garda investigation of Ian Bailey for the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier is due to be published within the next month.

Ian Bailey has confirmed that he has contacted the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) three times since late summer to reconsider a decision not to charge him in relation to the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier 20 years ago.

A young hero who saved a woman from drowning, a compassionate teenager who had endured much in recent years, and two brothers who have battled against the odds with their health, are among those honoured in the West Cork Garda Youth Awards.

Gardaí in West Cork are looking for people to nominate outstanding youngsters who are a credit to their communities so they can highlight their achievements at an annual awards ceremony.

Anyone missing a jetski?

It’s a horrible experience to be burgled and lose some of your prized possessions.

December 23, 1996: The body of Sophie Toscan du Plantier is found outside her holiday home near Toormore, near Schull in West Cork by a neighbour. Gardaí launch an investigation into the murder of the French film-maker.

A man stole 11 bottles of altar wine from a church before setting a fire in a field behind the building.

Having read the full 350-page Fennelly report, in which the Taoiseach and the Attorney General take a pasting, Cormac O’Keeffe concludes that it is clear politics took over from due process

The protracted Garda Ombudsman investigation into a complaint by Ian Bailey of garda wrongdoing is expected to be forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions in the coming months.

A Polish man has been remanded on bail after being charged in connection with one of the largest seizures of cannabis in the south of the country so far this year.

A retired garda chief superintendent yesterday told the High Court he asked the State Solicitor for West Cork in 1998 to raise the Garda case against Ian Bailey directly with the DPP, rather than any of his officials.

A former detective garda yesterday denied he told Marie Farrell gardaí knew Ian Bailey had killed Sophie Toscan du Plantier and needed her to say Mr Bailey was the man she saw near Schull hours before the body was found.

Gardaí did not eliminate Marie Farrell as an important witness in the Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder investigation after establishing she had lied to them, an former senior garda told the High Court.

Ex-assistant commissioner tells Bailey case he only found out on his retirement that it had happened

A former detective inspector has denied gardaí arrested Jules Thomas in bad faith so as to put pressure on her partner Ian Mr Bailey, at the time of his first arrest in connection with the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in West Cork.

A detective inspector has denied that, during their investigation into the 1996 murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, gardaí made no effort to verify the truth of Ian Bailey’s account of various matters, including how he got scratches on his hands and arms.

Garda denies he didn’t have ‘blind bit of interest’ in evidence to corroborate innocence

The State has called its first witness for its defence of the High Court action for damages brought by journalist Ian Bailey over the conduct of the investigation into the late 1996 murder in West Cork of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

The State Solicitor for West Cork, Malachy Boohig, said he was asked to attend a meeting in Bandon Garda Station in March 1998 where it was made clear gardaí were unhappy the DPP had opted not to charge Ian Bailey over the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

Detective Sgt tells superior they had to ‘break’ Bailey’s partner