A thief took medication and cash from a terminally ill man as he slept in his home, police said.

Seriously, of all the phones to steal?

A senior Garda boss has backed laws going through the Oireachtas which aim to restrict bail to serial burglars and impose longer sentences.

Gardaí are searching for a lone robber who held up bank staff at knifepoint in Cork yesterday morning before a security capsule exploded, covering him in ink.

GERMANY: A man is in hot water after allegedly stealing a bicycle, throwing it through a Berlin restaurant window, then entering the premises and quaffing half a bottle of Tabasco sauce — telling authorities he was thirsty.

Off-licence owner Pat Keller used an umbrella to fend off a thief after driving to the scene in a hearse.

“I gave him a crack of the umbrella.”

Nenagh off licence owner Pat Keller was forced to defend his business after finding a thief trying to steal from him.

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.

The widowed father of rugby international Eoin Reddan may have to abandon plans to see his son play in Leinster’s Heineken Cup match in France tomorrow, after being the victim of a hatchet-wielding intruder.