A man in a blood-spattered shirt was approached by gardaí in Cork city centre and he advised the man with him: “Say nothing to those fuckers”.

Gardaí are questioning a man in his 30s about the seizure of an estimated €70,000 worth of cocaine in Cork city.

A patient at a hospital psychiatric unit slipped out and bought a bottle of vodka at an off-licence and then returned and caused havoc for hospital staff.

A young mother who was found dead in a vacant building in Cork City had been beaten about the head and strangled.

A woman who admitted setting fire to two cars in Cork in March last year was put on probation bond for 12 months yesterday.

Gardaí have arrested two men for a series of early-morning raids on shops across Cork.

Four men and a woman are being questioned this morning in connection with the murder of Aidan O'Driscoll in Blackpool on December 7.

A psychiatric report is to be prepared on a 44-year-old man who made grossly offensive communications by phone to a woman to clarify if there is any future risk from the accused.

The man who allegedly declared in Cork that terrorist attacks in France brought him joy was yesterday remanded in custody until May. And he seemed to ask the judge if he would jail himself, too.

Detectives were questioning a man and a woman last night about a daylight knife attack on a woman in Cork City earlier this year.

Sharp rises in burglaries were recorded in two of Cork’s three Garda divisions last year, despite a general reduction in overall crime levels in the nationwide.

A file will be prepared for the DPP after two males were arrested in connection with an assault on a pregnant woman in Cork city centre.

A man charged with a 1997 double murder said a confession made by him in relation to the killings was “produced” by gardaí, a jury has heard.

Gardaí have arrested two men for questioning in connection with reported sexual assaults on two teenage girls following the Jason Derulo concert last night.

Gardaí are continuing to question four people in connection with a massive drugs seizure in Cork.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean Fitzpatrick is to be charged with 12 further breaches of company law.

A man has been arrested in connection with a serious assault in Co Cork last weekend after which a 57-year-old man died.

A post mortem will be carried out today on the body of a man who was killed and dumped in a wardrobe.

Gardaí are investigating two raids at post offices in Dublin and Cork, only one of which was successful and netted the robbers €14,000.

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore would not comment on whether Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte should apologise to RTÉ licence-fee payers after the broadcaster reached a settlement out of court for comments he made on air.

The stabbing of a 31-year-old man in Cork on Friday is now being treated as murder after the victim died in hospital last night.

Gardaí are hunting a man who violently attacked two women, sexually assaulting one, as they walked home.

Gardaí believe the woman whose body was found in a travel bag yesterday morning on a Dublin street was strangled.

The body of a woman found this morning in Dublin has been removed from the scene, still in the suitcase in which her remains were discovered.

A Spanish man is being treated in hospital after he was beaten with a golf club in Cork overnight.

GARDAÍ have appealed for witnesses to come forward after a serious assault on a man triggered a wave of attacks in a crowd of up to 120 late-night revellers.

GARDAÍ in Cork have arrested a fourth man in connection with the murder of suspected drug dealer Darren Falsey.

MORE than 60 men have been arrested and convicted for soliciting street prostitutes following a major undercover operation, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

A 21-year-old man has been refused bail after he was charged with possessing a revolver at Smithfield Horse Fair in Dublin in March.

Six people have been arrested as part of an ongoing investigation into the activities of dissident republicans and the murder of Gerard Staunton in Cork a year ago.

BUSINESSMAN and tax exile Jim Kennedy is to face 16 charges of making corrupt payments to politicians during the 1990s in return for their votes to rezone lands owned by one of his companies, Jackson Way Properties, at Carrickmines in south Dublin.

Gardaí in Cork are continuing to question a 36-year-old Latvian man in connection with a €400,000 drugs seizure on the southside of the city.

Customs officers have seized €200,000 worth of drugs after they stopped and searched a car which had disembarked from the ferry at Ringaskiddy.

Gardaí are continuing to hold a man and a woman in custody in relation to a drugs seizure in Co Cork yesterday.

A GARDA will be sentenced next month after pleading guilty to passing a confidential report to a newspaper reporter.

THE prosecution closed its case yesterday on the 33rd day of the trial of a Cork man accused of money-laundering — as a garda sergeant was cross-examined on whether he heard the accused say he hadn’t slept for two nights while in custody four years ago.

The jury in a Dublin murder trial saw footage of a man entering the murder scene before the crime and then exiting before leaving the area.

The man accused of money-laundering told investigators that he considered burning the millions of pounds of sterling that he had in the basement of his home in Cork, it emerged today.

The Cork man on trial for money-laundering declared to detectives during an off-camera interview in a garda station: “Phil Flynn is the boss behind everything.”

UNARMED gardaí foiled a suspected gangland hit after smashing into an assassin’s car, grappling with the hitmen and seizing a loaded revolver.

Two unarmed gardaí foiled an attempted gangland shooting when they tackled two men armed with a loaded revolver, it emerged today.

ONE of the men on trial for murder in the Mahon area of Cork last year said he “probably lost it” and had never intended to kill the young man.

Gardaí in Cork are investigating an alleged sexual assault in the city last night.

A Cork financial advisor who is accused of money-laundering - arising out of the investigation of the 2004 Northern Bank robbery - was back at Cork District Court today and remanded on continuing bail to appear again in a month’s time.