Bad Santa in prison after kicking court door

SANTA CLAUS was arrested in Cork city yesterday for kicking in a courthouse door — and with only a week to go to Christmas the man in red is in Cork Prison.

A special sitting of Court 3 at Cork District Court was organised to deal with the case. Judge David Riordan walked in at 4pm to see Santa in his traditional red suit with white trim, and wearing a long white beard and hair.

Children who are worried that preparations for Christmas may be jeopardised by the fact Santa is in prison should be told that the man in jail is not, in fact, the real Santa.