A woman caught with €800 worth of cannabis in her car told gardaí the drugs were for transmission to Cork Prison.

Gardaí have launched an investigation after a viable pipe bomb found in the garden of a house was wheeled in a pram through housing estates to a Garda station.

A spokesperson for the Army Bomb Disposal unit has said a viable pipe bomb brought into a Cork city garda station this morning could have seriously injured or killed someone had it detonated.

Togher garda station in Cork has been evacuated after a pipe bomb was brought into the garda station this morning by a member of the public, in a pram.

A woman told a court she had her jaw broken and was knocked unconscious by a man who swung a baseball bat or some kind of club into her face but a jury found him not guilty.