A homeless man who threw a keg through a window at a Simon accommodation centre in Cork was urged to get help for his ongoing drink problem.

The key to successful present buying I believe is to find something that the recipient wants, but which it did not occur to them to buy for themselves.

A Polish motorist with an open can of cider in the cup holder of his car and an open bottle of vodka on the passenger seat insisted: "Me no drinking" when approached by a garda.

Two men, arrested after a high-speed pursuit during which a garda was injured, have been remanded in custody after being charged with theft and a range of road traffic offences.

A gambling addict used his next-door neighbour’s bank account and forged his signature to withdraw a total of €3,400 from his account in three separate transactions.

A homeless man who broke into a house and watched television has admitted trespassing.

Staff at a hostel for the homeless in Cork were threatened that the premises would be bombed when they refused to admit a 42-year-old man.

NOBODY in Cork is denying that heroin is gaining a steadier foothold in the city.

A woman prison officer lost consciousness during a savage attack by a woman in Limerick prison and said she would not have survived, but for the intervention of colleagues.

A 64-year-old man making his way for the last bus home was accosted by three women who demanded money and went through his pockets to rob him, it was claimed yesterday.

FOUR jurors at a murder trial in Cork were unable to make it to court yesterday due to icy roads.

The woman who has been on trial for several weeks for the murder of a young Cork man whose body was found in a field in Kerry walked free this afternoon when the trial judge directed the jury to find her not guilty.

THE lawyer for the woman on trial for several weeks for the murder of a young Corkman whose body was found in a field in Kerry claimed yesterday there was absolutely no evidence against her.

A MURDER-accused told a trial yesterday: “I am heartbroken over my friend, I cannot understand how he died — I wasn’t hitting him that hard.”

THE palm print of a woman on trial for murdering a young man in Cork two years ago was found on the broken handle of a sweeping brush at the dead man’s flat.

THE man on trial for murder in Cork told gardaí that he did not ring an ambulance, priest or gardaí the next morning when he found that the young man was not breathing and said that instead he got a fright and left the flat.

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THE man who denies murdering a Fermoy man two years ago spoke to a detective on a car journey to a court and said: “I fucked up badly. I gave him a few slaps alright. He owed me about €500.”

THE employer who allegedly told his employee that he would not pay her when she was serving on the jury of murder trial apologised yesterday and said she would be paid.

THE man and woman on trial in Cork for murder had been on the run for a few days before gardaí found them in Tralee, Cork Circuit Criminal Court was told yesterday.

THE body of a Fermoy man was found on waste ground off a side road in Kerry with his hands bound in front of him with a white shoelace, the murder trial jury heard yesterday.

A GARDA spotted a shovel in a car and jokingly asked the driver if it was for burying a body — the driver is now on trial for murder.

THE victim in a murder trial was looking for €600 or €700 – possibly for drugs – on the day he disappeared, his mother and father have told the jury.

The trial of a man and woman accused of murdering a young Fermoy man at his flat in Cork city two years ago has opened in Cork this afternoon

HEROIN addicts in the north-east are waiting more than a year to get on a methadone programme, figures from the Health Service Executive have shown.

A man and a woman were charged today with murdering 25-year-old Fermoy man, John McManus, at a flat in Cork city in October 2008 – amid tearful scenes in and around Cork District Court.

A 59-year-old father-of-three with no previous convictions was told by Judge Patrick McCartan, "going to prison at this late stage in your life will be difficult", when he gave him a 15-year-sentence for drug dealing.

GARDAÍ were hunting last night for a knife attacker who slashed a homeless man in the face on a busy city plaza.

THOUSANDS of people visiting Bloom ‘07, the gardening extravaganza officially opened by President Mary McAleese yesterday, won’t get to see one particular garden.

THE recent ESRI report on the Freedom of Movement for Workers from Central and Eastern Europe was, to say the least, slim on substance.