A woman has described being shot in the neck as a Cork man went on trial on charges arising out a shot being fired through the front room window of a house in Cork City.

A man armed with a 4ft-long stick was jailed for four months for taking the law into his own hands and causing an injury to garda by resisting arrest.

Residents of a housing estate in Cork City say they are “living in fear and terror”, due to a marked rise in criminality.

A 29-year-old Corkman charged with discharging a firearm, arising out of an investigation into a young woman being shot in the neck 10 days ago, yesterday said he was seeking bail.

A man was yesterday charged with discharging a firearm arising out of an investigation into a shooting in Cork City, in the early hours of Sunday last, where a young woman was wounded in the neck.

Garda patrols have been stepped up on the northside of Cork City amid retaliation fears after the shooting of an innocent young woman 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.

THE same house was burgled four times in one year with a total of approximately €3,000 being snatched, and yesterday a man pleaded guilty to carrying out the four thefts.

AN EIGHT-MONTH jail sentence was imposed on the driver of a Nissan Micra who drove into a housing estate and did a handbrake turn in front of a parked Garda car.

The jury in a trial relating to the death of two teenagers on the road in Knocknaheeny last May returned verdicts of guilty against both accused men this evening.

Three of the six men on trial on charges arising out of a series of incidents culminating in the death of two teenagers on the road in Knocknaheeny last May were found not guilty this afternoon and walked free from the case.

DETAILED evidence was given in a trial yesterday of what was seen in the seconds before two cars crashed, resulting in the deaths of two teenagers.

Cork City Council has refused to transfer a couple who claim their house is haunted.

A LOCAL authority last night ruled out granting a housing transfer to a young couple based on their claims that their house is haunted.

THE loss of one young life is tragic, but the loss of two in a tight-knit community on the northside of Cork city has been described as almost unbearable.

GARDAÍ are continuing their investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of two teenagers who lost their lives in a horror accident which saw two cars hit a gable wall on the northside of Cork city.

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