Ian Bailey has been arrested on suspicion of drink driving and was tonight being detained in Bantry Garda Station.

A mother and her son from Cape Clear island off the coast of West Cork have spent a night in custody after being found guilty of harassing another islander over a period of almost two years in what a judge described as a long campaign of “sustained, deliberate, vulgar, and demeaning abuse”.

A man has been found guilty of attacking his then girlfriend by throwing her on the floor, beating her, and then pinning her to the bed in their flat before he then dropped her to work.

A grandmother has been sentenced to four months in jail after being convicted of possessing drugs for sale or supply — her car and handbag were searched when a garda in the public office of the local garda station smelt cannabis.

A grandmother has been sentenced to four months in jail after being convicted of possessing drugs for sale or supply - her car and handbag were searched when a garda in the public office of the local garda station smelt cannabis.

A woman who was stopped by gardaí while test-driving a car has been disqualified for having no insurance.

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.

IT is difficult to imagine that the after-dinner, residents’ lounge conversation among any group involved in how our seas’ resources are managed, exploited or shared would be a cheery, celebratory affair. 

With licences being secured and sought to mechanically harvest seaweed in Bantry Bay and parts of the west coast residents fear the damage may be irreparable, writes Louise Roseingrave.

Gardaí have been forced to move prisoners to other stations for the last number of weeks because a fault has closed down all the cells in a divisional headquarters.

You hit Don Davis with an opening question about what he expects from Kerry on Sunday and he volleys it straight back. "Ye’re long enough writing it and I’m long enough playing football to know that Kerry can come with whatever they want to come with," says the Cork football selector.

A pensioner has been killed in a road traffic accident in west Cork.

A charge of drink driving against a 34-year-old man who failed a breath test after drinking a gin and tonic ahead of a hospital appointment was struck out yesterday.

A 30-year-old man charged with arson offences in West Cork, including damaging fire service training vehicles on two separate occasions, has been remanded on bail.

A woman has died following a crash in Co. Cork overnight.

A man has been seriously injured in a single-car collision in Bantry, Co Cork in the early hours of this morning.

A car, in which a man died in a road traffic accident at the weekend, had been taken without permission from a peninsula garda station.

A pensioner has been arrested in connection with the suspicious death of another man in west Cork.

An elderly man has been arrested after a body was discovered in West Cork.

AT 60ft long it’s hard to imagine it would be easy to hide a vintage Soviet troop-transport plane.

A man and woman were arrested today after 5kg (11lb) of herbal cannabis and plants were seized on a farm

SOPHIE Toscan du Plantier’s family expects a lengthy legal battle to get Ian Bailey before a French judge investigating her death.

Ian Bailey is to appear in court again next Wednesday in connection with the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier 14 years ago

An inquiry into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier is likely to get underway in Paris this month.

GARDAÍ have asked parents to be vigilant following two reports that a man in a dark green car approached young girls in suspicious circumstances.

THE cocaine pulled out of the sea off the coast of west Cork could have netted well in excess of €1 billion on the street.

THE EARLY morning knock on the door of an isolated farmhouse in West Cork didn’t only herald the arrival of air-sea rescue helicopters. It led to the biggest drugs case in the history of the State.

One of the men on trial in relation to the recovery of €440m worth of cocaine off the West Cork coast has a brother who was with the drug squad of the British Metropolitan Police, it emerged on the fourteenth day of the trial today.

TWO men on trial over Ireland’s biggest-ever drugs seizure were arrested after a garda found the pair walking among cattle on a west Cork country road, a court heard yesterday.

THERE was a very strong security presence outside a Co Cork courthouse yesterday as two Englishmen in their 40s appeared on charges relating to the seizure of €107 million worth of cocaine.

A fourth man was today arrested in connection with a €107m seizure of cocaine off the Cork coast, gardaí have confirmed.

TWO men who were on the run since Monday following the record €107 million cocaine seizure off the Cork coast were arrested yesterday outside Schull following a 48-hour manhunt.

THE Mizen peninsula was sealed off yesterday in the hunt for two smugglers linked to one of Europe’s biggest drugs hauls.

Gardaí were tonight poised to arrest an English man recovering in hospital who is believed to hold vital information about a botched €105m cocaine smuggling ring.

THE cocaine found yesterday off the west Cork coast after the sinking of a rib is believed to have come from the Caribbean on its way to the lucrative European market.

A garda has been arrested and is being questioned about an alleged sexual assault.

A WOMAN in her 60s, who was killed in pile-up in Co Cork yesterday,became the 205th person to die on Irish roads so far this year.