Two men have been arrested after an attempted armed robbery in Cork this morning.

Gardaí arrested 17 people on drugs, burglary, theft, fraud and robbery charges in an Operation Thor day of action.

Gardaí have made two arrests in connection with a stabbing in Cork city centre earlier this month.

The arrest follows a serious assault near the Ulster Bank on Patrick Street at around 9.15pm on September 12 when a man was critically injured.

The range of incidents included suspected possession of child pornography, assault, burglary, theft, drugs, and immigration offences.

A young woman was arrested and charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice during the jury trial of her boyfriend for firing a shot into a house in Cork injuring a woman.

The woman who was arrested in connection with the investigation into the death of Cork toddler Santina Cawley has been released without charge.

A woman in her thirties has been arrested in connection with the murder of two-year-old Santina Cawley

A man was stabbed in Cork last night - the second stabbing incident in the city in two nights.

Liam Heylin A man accused of assault causing harm to his mother, who died as a result of a fall months later, had the assault charge against him withdrawn by the DPP yesterday.

A teenager who facing charges under Operation Joyrider – a garda investigation of car thefts in Cork city – has been released on more stringent bail after four nights in custody.

A teenager who was charged under Operation Joyrider, targeting alleged car thefts in Cork City, had his bail revoked for 18 breaches yesterday and was remanded in custody.

Gardaí have arrested a woman in her thirties in relation to the murder of Mikolaj Wilk in Cork last year.

He is the fifth person arrested in relation to the investigation.

A young man accused of kicking in his mother’s front door and assault causing harm to her at Christmas argued through his solicitor yesterday that the charges should be struck out because she had died on Monday night.

The Garda control room in Cork was contacted by a 999 caller three times in one night threatening to shoot gardaí in the head for seizing his car and to petrol-bomb Gurranabraher Garda Station.

“This is not an idle threat. It will happen.”

The guardian of a teenager gave her highest praise to a district court judge yesterday when she said TV’s Judge Judy would not put up with what Judge Olann Kelleher put up with in his court.

Violent property crime has risen sharply, with a 17% increase in offences in the last year, Garda figures show.

Gardaí investigating the murder of a Polish man in Co Cork have issued a specific appeal for a taxi driver who dropped passengers in the area in the hours before the attack to contact them.

Gardaí investigating the machete murder of a Polish man in his home in Cork last weekend have appealed to taxi or hackney drivers who were working in the area at the time to come forward.

Gardaí investigating the machete murder of a Polish man in his home in Cork last weekend have appealed to taxi or hackney drivers who were working in the area at the time to come forward.

Members of the Polish community gathered in solidarity yesterday at a special Mass in memory of father of two Mikolaj Wilk, who was murdered in a machete attack in Ballincollig, Co Cork, at the weekend.

Gardaí investigating the machete murder of a Polish man in Cork have encouraged members of his own community to contact them with any information they have about his background or about concerns that he may have had.

Gardaí have yet to establish the motive behind a brutal attack in which a man in his 30s was hacked to death in his Co Cork home in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Gardaí caught a Cork man with almost €1,000 worth of heroin concealed on his person and yesterday he was jailed for three and a half years.

A cyclist swallowed a bag of suspected heroin to obstruct a drugs search in Cork city and yesterday the culprit got a suspended five-month jail term.

A member of An Garda Síochána yesterday successfully appealed a conviction on a charge of assault causing harm to his ex-girlfriend.

A 43-year-old woman in dressing gown and pyjamas arrested near a house in the countryside where a safe was stolen during a burglary told gardaí she was in the area to go for a walk.

The family of a young Cork man are worried about him since he went missing on Sunday morning.

A garda had to be taken to hospital after a drink-driver rammed a Garda car in a head-on collision during his attempts to flee the scene.

Gardaí are hunting for three suspected arsonists after fire gutted a derelict listed former asylum in Cork city.

Gardaí are searching for a lone, armed raider who held up a post office in Co Cork and made off with a large sum of cash.

Gardaí arrested a man and brought him before Cork District Court on aggravated burglary and other charges after a man in his early 60s was stabbed in the face at his home in Blarney, Co Cork.

A man in his early 60s has been stabbed in the face during an aggravated burglary in Blarney, Co Cork.

Two men were charged with the most serious charge under the drugs act yesterday arising from the seizure of €126,000 worth of cannabis resin on the main Cork-Dublin motorway in February.

The Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork condemned a city centre attack on a Muslim leader who has helped foster inter-faith links.

A Ballincollig man who said he knew where a number gardaí lived and was going to burn down their homes was jailed for a year yesterday.

A second man is being questioned by gardaí investigating the shooting of Ciara Sheehan in Cork at the weekend.

Two people have been arrested after a woman was shot in the neck after a bullet was fired through the front window of her boyfriend’s family home, writes Eoin English of the Irish Examiner.

UPDATE: Gardaí investigating the shooting of an innocent young woman in a house in Cork city yesterday have recovered a firearm.

A five-month jail term was imposed yesterday on a driver who fell out the door of her car after a drink-driving escapade which saw sparks coming from the front wheel in the early hours of the morning.

Sparks were seen coming from the front wheel of a car in the early hours of the morning as it swerved from side to side — and the driver was so drunk that she literally fell out the door of the car onto the side of the road.