Gardaí have launched an investigation after reports that a man was assaulted at a house on the northside of Cork city last night where a family was in mourning after a funeral.

Two gangs were out for blood on bonfire night in Cork and some armed themselves with knives, sticks, meat cleavers, knuckledusters, and bottles.

Four men pleaded guilty yesterday to engaging in an affray on Bonfire Night in Cork City in a case where it was alleged that some men armed themselves with knives, sticks, meat cleavers, knuckledusters, and bottles in a violent row in a residential area.

Two gardaí were cleared today on a charge of assault causing harm to a teenager at a holding cell in Gurranabraher garda station in Cork.

TWO armed men wearing motorcycle helmets smashed the window of a jeep and at gunpoint forced it's owner to hand over more than €20,000 in Cork city yesterday afternoon.