A man who claimed that a clamper’s van struck him after a clamp was put on his wife’s car has been convicted of making a false complaint to gardaí.

The number of frontline gardaí based in several Cork City Garda stations is still at 2010 levels despite the arrival of 15 probationary gardaí in two districts this week.

A young boxer from Tipperary who competed at a national level was jailed yesterday for causing a disturbance at Cork University Hospital.

Latest: Gardaí say 79 year old Christopher McCarthy has been located safe and well.

A woman has gone missing from Cork University Hospital.

One thousand ‘missed calls’ along with a thousand emails were directed to a woman by her ex-boyfriend, long after the relationship had ended.

A 41-year-old man, known for his love of hunting, died in a shooting incident in Cork City yesterday.

Gardaí have asked for the public’s help in finding missing man Thomas Rawley.

Gardaí have issued a strong warning to parents to be aware of what their teenagers are doing at night after questioning a 15-year-old boy about a fire which gutted a shop in a Cork suburb over the weekend.

A teenage girl has gone missing from her home in Co Cork.

Members of a family in Crosshaven called the gardaí when they were frightened by a man who appeared to be trying to get into their home in the early hours of the morning, but he claimed he was on his way to a party and got confused.

Gardaí in Cork have recovered the weapon which they believe was used in the stabbing of a businessman who disturbed a burglar in his home.

Togher garda station in Cork city has been evacuated after a member of the public brought in a suspect device.

The family of a 75-year-old Indian-born man, brutally beaten as he waited for a bus in a Cork suburb, do not believe the incident was racially motivated.

Valerie O’Donovan, 32, died in the early hours of last Sunday in a single vehicle crash at Manch Middle, Ballineen, Co Cork. Ms O’Donovan of Riverview Drive, Ballineen was a front-seat passenger in the car.

Gardaí are investigating after a 25-year-old woman was killed in a crash in Co. Cork last night.

Seven men pleaded guilty yesterday to their involvement in a two-part brawl after a house party in Carrigaline, Co Cork, last year.

A man in his 20s has been killed in a stabbing incident in Co Cork.

MASKED robbers armed with sawn-off shotguns stole up to €140,000 from a G4 security van in Cork yesterday afternoon.

Gardaí are searching for three raiders who held up a cash delivery van in Cork this afternoon.

Two men have been arrested as part of an investigation into a serious assault on a woman in Cork last month.

A man who died following a row in Cork city in the early hours of this morning has been named locally as Gerard Delaney from Mahon.

Gardaí investigating the death of a man in a fight outside a pub in Cork city have started examining CCTV footage in a bid to try and identify the culprits.

Gardaí in Cork are expected to launch a murder inquiry after a post mortem on the body of a 51-year-old man who was fatally injured during a row outside a pub in the city.

Two women have been killed in separate car crashes in Co Cork.

GARDAÍ have made a third arrest as part of their investigation into the murder of a Cork drug dealer.

GARDAÍ say that the killer of a 36-year-old suspected drug dealer may have followed him for days before firing a number of shots into him at almost point-blank range in the hallway of his rented home.

Gardaí investigating the activities of dissident Republicans have arrested five men in Cork this morning.

THIS is the dramatic moment when a disturbed man attacked a garda with a knife, stole his jeep, and set off on a terrifying rampage through Cork city.

Gardaí in Cork are to resume questioning a 38-year old man, after he allegedly attempted to ram an airplane at Cork Airport in a stolen jeep yesterday.

A DENTIST who opened all the buttons on his assistant’s tunic to check the quality of the material had his indecent assault conviction dismissed on appeal yesterday.

Passengers who were on the flight on which Cork broadcaster Neil Prendeville is alleged to have exposed himself and masturbated himself will be interviewed by gardaí over the coming days.

A GANG stole up to €6,500 worth of alloy wheels off cars from a Cork city car dealership early on of Sunday morning.

Gardaí in Cork have issued an appeal for help from the public in tracing a missing man.

THE chief suspect in a Garda investigation into the weekend murder of retired accountant John Hyland is being held in a secure unit at a Cork psychiatric facility.

A LIMERICK man arrested at Cork Airport as he tried to board a flight to Amsterdam with a false passport, has a €1 million contract on his head and has used a bulletproof BMW car for protection.

Gardaí in Cork have arrested an Asian woman after €250,000 worth of drugs were seized at Cork Airport.

A JUDGE yesterday described a former Department of Defence engineer as “a neighbour from hell” and denied his appeal against a garda refusal to grant him a firearms licence.

GARDAÍ are appealing for the public’s help in locating a missing 33-year-old man from Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

THE man described as the kingpin in Munster’s sex industry was one of six people arrested yesterday in a series of raids on brothels and homes.

GARDAÍ have described the theft of nearly half a million euro worth of laptops and televisions as a “very professional job”.

GARDAÍ say they’re treating seriously claims that a man tried to abduct a 10-year-old girl as she was waiting outside a school for her parents to collect her.