GARDAÍ are searching for an armed raider who held a female shop assistant at knife-point before robbing cash from the premises and locking her in a room inside.

THE organisation representing the country’s rank-and-file gardaí has described conditions at a Garda station in Co Cork “as no better than a Third World sweatshop factory”.

A CAR painted in a top hurling club’s colours was torched yesterday, just hours before its senior team won another county final.

GARDAÍ believe a highly professional gang may be exporting airbags stolen from expensive 5-series BMWs.

GARDAÍ have decided to defer a walkout of a dilapidated district headquarters in mid-Cork after receiving assurances the OPW will build a new station.

GARDAÍ have questioned a man in his 40s following the theft of €300,000 of steel girders which, they believe, were smuggled out of the country.

A MAN was arrested in Cork last night in connection with an investigation into an attack on a Polish woman in the driveway of a busy hotel.

SCORES of bank customers could be victims of a gang which placed a skimming machine on an ATM in Co Cork.

GARDAÍ admitted yesterday to being baffled by the lack of information coming from the public in relation to the hijacking of a 25-year-old woman’s car and her unlawful imprisonment.

A 13-year-old boy was grabbed by the throat and kicked and punched by two younger children looking for €1 during an attempted daytime mugging in a suburban shopping centre in Cork.