A heroin addict jumped the counter of a service station in Cork City to rob almost €500 in cash and a bundle of lottery tickets but it was a luckless experience which resulted in a three-year jail sentence yesterday.

Three people have been arrested following an armed robbery at a service station in Cork city.

THE man who died in a crash on a stolen motorcycle in Cork city on Monday night was previously caught stealing a car on the same street.

A 20-year-old Cork man has been acquitted of the murder of a 46-year-old woman during a break in at her flat in Cork city centre.

Video recordings of the interrogation of a Cork man accused of murder were shown to a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal court today.

Video recordings of the interrogation of a Corkman accused of murder are being shown to a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal court today.

A 24-year-old Cork man accused of murder allegedly told detectives he didn’t seem to show remorse for the death of a middle-aged woman, a jury at the Central Criminal court was told today.

A human identification expert has told a murder trial jury this morning that there was evidence that the DNA profile of one of two men accused of murder matched extracts taken from the victim's body.

A Cork man accused of murder told detectives how he and his co-accused stormed a neighbour’s flat wearing pink and yellow rubber gloves and pillowcases and towels on their heads before she was murdered, a jury heard at the Central Criminal court today.

A call made to a Cork Garda station shortly after a woman was murdered threatened a Garda the caller would "do it again" if the gardaí didn't go to where they said the murdered woman could be found, a murder trial jury at the Central Criminal court heard today.

Legal argument in the absence of the jury continued today at the Central Criminal Court trial of two men accused of murdering a woman in her Cork city flat.

A teenager told a murder trial jury today that one of two men accused of murdering a woman in her Cork city flat told her that they had done it.

Two men accused of murdering a woman in a neighbouring apartment in Cork were heard whispering in their flat before she was killed and were seen leaving the block afterwards, a court heard today.

Two Cork men robbed then strangled a 50-year-old neighbour with a piece of electrical cable before making a "crude" attempt to make it look like suicide, a court heard today.

Two Cork men robbed then strangled their 50-year-old neighbour with a piece of cable and tried to make it look like suicide, a court heard today.

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

A Cork man remains in a critical condition after being stabbed in the city centre in the early hours of today. The man, in his early thirties, was in a critical condition after being stabbed on Leitrim St on Cork’s northside around 3am.