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of assault causing harm to his mother, who died as a result of a fall months later, had the assault charge against him withdrawn by the DPP yesterday.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

STRAWBERRY Fields are forever — or, at least, the memory of them can be. Up for sale in the Blarney/Waterloo area is Carrigdara, a mid-1990s build at a spot called Knocknasuff, and it stands on productive gardens of half an acre.

A man who burgled a hair salon called back and admitted he was the culprit, but he also inquired about CCTV at the premises.

THE brother of a garda who received a suspended jail sentence for assaulting a man in Cork city following a jibe about a “gay shirt” has been fined €500 for the much smaller role that he played in the incident.