Two men were arrested and charged with carrying out a burglary at the home of an elderly woman while she was in hospital.

A man was so worried about his mental health that he told a judge he did not want his jail sentence suspended as he felt that he would be safer in prison.

A young man wanted by gardaí regarding an alleged domestic violence case said yesterday that he gave up drink on Christmas Day and feels it is time for him to put his life in order.

An 11-year-old girl was left lying slumped on a road after being struck by a stolen BMW car that did not stop.

The Lord Mayor of Cork will host a major fundraising concert next month to help the city’s homeless.

A garda sergeant had a rock thrown at his head and told his colleague he was “a goner” as they came under fire from a violent group. He fell to the ground and the other officer, who was also injured, shielded the fallen sergeant from further harm.

A taskforce set up three weeks ago to target begging and street crime in Cork City centre led to 15 people appearing in court yesterday.

A judge said an escapade that involved driving a stolen van from Cork City to Killarney while being pursued at times by patrol cars, could have killed someone.

A stolen car was driven at high speed though Cork suburbs in rush-hour traffic, crossing to the wrong side of the road, mounting a footpath where families were walking, and later ramming a Garda car.

A man trying to beat his addictions died from a cocktail of drugs after injecting heroin in the toilets of a fast-food restaurant in Cork City, an inquest heard yesterday.

A man who slipped a can of beer down his trousers in a shop reacted to a security man by biting his arm. And when asked to sign the notes of a follow-up interview by gardaí, he ate the pages.

A man has pleaded guilty to stealing in the region of €1,650 after being offered the use of a staff toilet at a small city centre cafe where he was having a cup of tea and a pancake.

A Polish man who organised prostitution in Poland tried to sexually assault two women in Cork city and he terrified another woman by strangling her with her own scarf until he fled when two men arrived on the scene.

A mother of four who was caught twice dealing heroin in Cork City was described yesterday as a serious drug dealer.

GARDAÍ believe a lethal combination of drugs such as heroin, methadone and Xanax caused the death of two men in their 30s in Cork city.

A MAN has been found not guilty of murder but guilty of the manslaughter of a mother-of-three who was beaten to death in her Cork home last year.

The jury in the trial at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin of a man charged with the murder of a Cork mother of three will resume its deliberations tomorrow following one hour of deliberation.

A 47-year-old man accused of the murder of a Cork woman in her home on Easter Sunday last year told a jury at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin today that the person who carried out the murder as a “ complete psychopath”.

A MAN has told gardaí that the Cork woman he is charged with murdering at her home on Easter Sunday last year had a “past life” and that people regularly called to her home in the months before her death.

A MOTHER of three found dead in her Cork home on Easter Sunday last year may have been bludgeoned to death with a hurley, a Central Criminal Court jury has heard.

A MAN was yesterday given an eight-year jail sentence, with the last three years suspended, for the manslaughter of a Polish man.

A Cork man accused of unlawfully killing a Polish man in his thirties confessed to the manslaughter today.

A POLISH man who sustained head injuries in a weekend attack in Cork died yesterday.

A MAN who refused all forms of feeding during a lengthy stay in hospital died in part from malnutrition, an inquest heard yesterday.

THE DEATH of a man days after he was admitted to hospital with a nosebleed was directly linked to his abuse of alcohol, an inquest heard yesterday.

THE death of man 18 days after he was admitted to hospital with a nose bleed was directly linked to his abuse of alcohol, an inquest heard yesterday.