A St John’s ambulance volunteer suffered a dislocated shoulder and fractured wrist when a man dragged her to the ground as he tried to rob her handbag and yesterday she said of the accused: “Everyone deserves a second chance.”

A man has been arrested and charged with a count of assault causing harm to an 79-year-old man in Cork City.

A post mortem is taking place on the body of a woman in her early 40s, which was discovered in a house in Cork city last night.