A motorist was caught driving without insurance for the 73rd time and yesterday he was jailed for five months.

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The judge who imposed three-year suspended sentences on the four young people involved in the chain of supply of drugs to two young Dungarvan men found dead in Kinsale said the case was an eloquent expression of the tragedy that drugs destroy lives.

A taxi driver lost his public service vehicle licence yesterday after he got into an altercation with gardaí on a night off and had to be pepper-sprayed.

A GARDA superintendent whose officers searched a bingo hall and seized property in a case where the licence is in dispute said yesterday at the High Court in Cork that “the last thing I wanted to do was go down there and take bingo books from old ladies”.

A GARDA Superintendent who objected to a commercially run bingo hall operating in Cork city was described by the company’s barrister as a man with a mission with a “truly alarming” approach to the issue.

A RARE National Dairy Show, two-in-a-row win kept the Barrett clan of Togher and Adamstown, Cork, at the top of Irish dairy showing last weekend.

GARDAÍ have appealed for help in tracking sword-wielding thieves who terrorised shop staff in Cork over the weekend.

MOBILE phone company O2 has launched a crackdown on debtors, last week taking 70 people to court to recover €100,000 in unpaid phone bills.

LIDL was fined the maximum penalty of €3,000 for each of three breaches of new product prices legislation yesterday.

“This is D-day. Be prepared to die.”