Armed gardaí dealt with a violent row where one man was seen carrying a hatchet and a crowbar but the accused man claimed he only had the items after he tidied up the scene because children were in the area.

A PREGNANT woman who absconded from a psychiatric hospital was found dead at home two weeks later, an inquest in Cork heard yesterday.

Preliminary post mortem results are expected this morning on the body of a woman found in Cork city.