A farmer has pleaded guilty to 14 sample counts, mainly in relation to bovine tagging and identification, animal movement, and animal health and welfare.

A Cork man who asked for his community service to include playing the guitar was jailed for two months yesterday for a burglary committed last month.

An agricultural contractor who feared for the lives of himself and his family fired two shots into the air from his shotgun when a car arrived in his yard following reports another family were coming up to sort him out.