A 31-year-old man verbally abusing people at Wilton shopping centre in Cork was later found to be carrying a knife in his jeep.

A house where the dead body of a young man was found in January was described by residents yesterday as “a den of iniquity” as Cork City Council applied to evict the tenant and regain possession.

Gardaí last night ruled out a connection between the suspected drugs-related deaths of a teenager and a man in his 20s in the same Cork city suburb in recent days.

Gardaí last night ruled out a connection between the suspected drugs-related deaths of a teenager and a man in his 20s in the same Cork city suburb in recent days.