A man charged with arriving at a house in Cork while armed first with a hurley and later with a machete was allegedly involved in family feud, it was claimed by gardaí.

Gardaí were notified in a 999 call of a man running around a residential area of Cork with a shotgun, but yesterday a man admitted to making the call as a hoax.

A talented boxer who used his skills to attack young men he encountered on the street and rob them, was jailed yesterday.

A family escaped serious injury after a viable pipe bomb thrown at their home failed to explode.

The Army Bomb Disposal team made safe a viable device this morning in Co Cork.

A couple who were at home in bed in North Cork were terrified when a man armed with a sledgehammer and a woman carrying an iron bar smashed their way into their bedroom and demand thousands of euro in cash.

The trial of a man and woman accused of carrying out an aggravated burglary in the Mallow area while armed with a sledgehammer and an iron bar was about to start yesterday — but the two accused changed their pleas to guilty.

A witness in a burglary case was allegedly threatened that she would be forced to watch another person burn in their bed.

A YOUNG motorist who was seen racing a Honda Civic with another unidentified car on a dual-carriageway at 190 kilometres per hour has been banned from driving for a year.

THE difference between the aristocracy and the rest of us is that they count — we all go back that far, it’s just that we don’t keep track.