A Ballincollig man dealing heroin in Cork city was jailed for 10 months yesterday.

A cyclist swallowed a bag of suspected heroin to obstruct a drugs search in Cork city and yesterday the culprit got a suspended five-month jail term.

A suspended 12-month jail sentence was imposed on a man accused of failing to take all reasonable measures against the outbreak of fire after another man was fatally injured trying to escape from the third floor of a burning building.