A man who splashed a passing motorist while hosing flowers in his garden and then hit him in the head with an iron bar cannot be sentenced until another court considers removing a suspension on another sentence for assault.

A motorist who complained he was splashed by a man watering flowers had the hose turned directly on him and was struck on the head with an iron bar, it was claimed at trial yesterday.

GARDAÍ stopped a car near the Jack Lynch tunnel as it arrived in Cork with €215,000 worth of cannabis in the boot and yesterday the man responsible for the shipment was jailed for six years.