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A district court judge has described the release of a man from Cork prison just one hour after he was admitted as ‘shocking and scandalous’.

A CLONAKILTY man who threatened to ‘kick the sh*t’ out of his neighbour if he saw him walking down the street and who also took a car without the owner’s consent has been sentenced to 12 months in prison. James Williamson (32) of 39 Parkview, Clonakilty pleaded guilty at th

The Judge told a sitting of the court in Cork how the man had said it was "the best thing that ever happened to him".

A DISTRICT court judge told a mum of two who spat at gardaí and swung a punch at one of them that she has ‘bad behaviour, bad conduct, and bad attitude’.Judge James McNulty made the comment when dealing with the case of Danielle Cashman at Clonakilty District Court last week

A 20-YEAR-old Bandon man, currently serving a prison sentence for assault, has received a 60-day suspended sentence for telling gardaí to ‘f**k off’ before they arrested him for public order offences.Collins Odafan Ewanisha of 62 Deerpark, Bandon pleaded guilty at Bandon Dis

A TIMOLEAGUE man who stole groceries and plants from a Clonakilty supermarket on four separate occasions has received a conditional discharge for the offences.Thomas O’Hea (63) of 20 Chapel Avenue, Timoleague pleaded guilty to the offences at Clonakilty District Court.Sgt Tom M

A DAD-of-two who punched his wife in the face at their family home has been sentenced to seven months in prison for the assault.The 46-year-old man pleaded guilty to the assault charge at Bandon District Court.Sgt Tom Mulcahy told the court that at 12.28pm on November 13th last g

A BANDON man has been sentenced to six months in prison for a ‘savage and unprovoked’ assault with other youths on an innocent man along a riverwalk last year.Collins Odafan Ewanisha of 62 Deerpark, Bandon pleaded guilty to assault, violent disorder, and criminal damage at Ba

JUDGE James McNulty said he would resist a solicitor’s recommendation to state a case to the High Court. He said he would do some research himself after an interesting point of law was raised at Skibbereen District Court.Eamonn Fleming, the solicitor representing Kevin Lawlor

A DONEGAL man working in West Cork observed driving erratically through Bandon while on his way to return a pizza asked a garda if he hit him, would he hit him back.