A 71-year-old man kissed and licked the face of an eight-year-old boy sitting on a bench in Clonakilty and now he has been sentenced to nine months in prison.

A man who denied three counts of arson to cars parked outside a house was treated for second-degree burn injuries to his hands very soon after the disputed crime, it emerged during his trial.

A young woman with a gambling addiction claimed €42,500 to which she was not entitled in payments to relieve her homelessness.

A mother-of-four was threatened by a man that he would cut off her head and as he spilled petrol outside her house he said, “One strike of a match and it’s bye-bye kids.

 A man who broke into the home of an 83-year-old woman, shining a torch in her bedroom and announcing himself as a garda looking for burglars was jailed for six years for this burglary and a spree of others.

 The cases against Cork businessman David Barry on charges of sexually assaulting boy scouts was adjourned for a week following their first mention at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

Barry, 72, of Firgrove Gardens, Bishopstown, Cork, was served with the book of evidence by Detective Garda Gary Duggan at Cork District Court

Over €50,000 worth of cocaine was allegedly seized at a property in Ballincollig and yesterday a 48-year-old man was formally arrested for the purpose of bringing a serious drugs charge against him.