A taxi driver who was told he could not pass the entrance to the Marquee the night The Prodigy played last summer denied saying “Fuck you, boy” to the garda.

The ground floor at No 51 Marina Park, says Tommy Barker, can be as open as you like with lots of options to compartmentalise if you wish.

A GRIEVING son who lost his mother to cancer and a young woman whose baby died when he was just a day old were among the 10,000 participants in the four-mile Evening Echo Women’s Mini Marathon in Cork yesterday.

"This is a stick-up" is what the first man in a queue told a postmistress as soon as she opened for business - but within minutes, he was arrested and held by a local pensioner and a Ukrainian national.