An 83-year-old Christian Brother who intervened in an effort to prevent a jeweller being robbed of a gold bracelet was knocked to the floor during the crime and yesterday the accused was remanded in custody for sentencing on September 8.

A WOMAN walking in Cork city at three o’clock in the afternoon was kicked by a Fermoy man who first asked her, “Are you a nun?”

A SPECIALIST hospital in Britain has come to the assistance of a woman with a rare syndrome, which renders her alert but unable to speak or move as a shortage of beds continues to delay in her treatment here.

A PARALYSED mother who couldn’t get a rehab bed in Ireland has been offered a place at a top clinic in England.

PARENTS fighting for a rehab bed for their paralysed daughter were devastated last night after being told that she has contracted the MRSA superbug.

I WAS disgusted by the decision to close the Unemployment Centre at North Main Street, Cork (Irish Examiner, August 24).

THE woman who abducted a baby boy at a Cork hospital was back in court yesterday after she fled from her residential treatment programme and ended up coming to the attention of gardaí in Cork city where she was causing a disturbance on the street.