Man entered Cork Garda station with knives

A man is due in court in Cork today after a dramatic knife incident at a city Garda station.

Unarmed gardaí talked the man into surrendering two knives and a hammer moments after a garda vehicle was smashed up at Mayfield Station on the northside of Cork City around lunchtime yesterday.

The man, 43, walked into an area to the rear of the station building where all the windows and wing mirrors on a patrol van were damaged.