The bulk of the 583 full- and part-time jobs at the company are likely to be lost, Mr Justice Paul Gilligan heard yesterday.

A High Court judge has been asked to prevent retired solicitor Brian O’Donnell from defending a bank’s attempt to prevent him trespassing on his former family home at Gorse Hill, Killiney, Dublin.

A two-month stay has been placed on a High Court injunction linked to the closure to the public of a branch of Dunnes Stores in Wexford.

A High Court judge has strongly criticised the continuing failure over months to make a decision whether accountancy firm KPMG should, in its capacity as former auditors to Irish Nationwide Building Society, be sued as a co-defendant in separate actions by State-owned IBRC against Michael Fingleton and other former directors of the society over €6bn losses.

An application may be made to join accountancy firm KPMG as a defendant to a legal action arising from €6bn losses at Irish Nationwide Building Society.

Development loans of €260m were advanced to a company on securities including a guarantee of one of its directors limited to €8m, the commercial court was told yesterday.

Thirty one members of the Dublin County Amateur Boxing Board have been told by a judge to pay a €60,000 costs bill arising out of an unsuccessful legal foray against their parent body, the Irish Amateur Boxing Association.

Dublin City Council owns the River Liffey within its local authority boundary by reason of Royal Charters granted by King John in 1200 and 1215, a court has decided.

A JUDGE is to look at laws and charters going back to pre-Magna Carta days in a bid to settle a dispute over Dublin City Council’s legal right to lease out the fishing interests of the River Liffey.