A 13-year-old buying chips for himself was grabbed and threatened that his throat would be cut with a Stanley blade by a raider demanding money from the employee behind the fast food restaurant’s counter.

A publican accused of threatening to return to Heineken’s headquarters in Cork with a shotgun in a commercial row over beer supply will spend the weekend in jail after he refused to give an undertaking to stay away from the premises.

A murder-accused used a large knife “like a hammer and chisel” on his victim’s throat, wrists, stomach and thigh after strangling her with an electric cable and robbing her, it was alleged at the Central Criminal court today.

Two Cork men have denied the murder of a 50-year-old woman.