The board of management of a South Dublin secondary school were "kept in the dark" about plans by the Christian Brothers to sell part of its playing grounds to builders for €18m, the High Court has heard.

A burglar who asked for a job in a fast food restaurant later returned to steal a bag of coins, a court has heard.

Gangs of criminals from Dublin and Limerick which have targeted rural areas of Cork will now be tracked by new CCTV technology which is being installed in the town of Macroom.

A ruling that breathalyser test statements were not valid if printed in the English language only, which had held up 1,400 alleged drink driving prosecutions, has been overturned by the Court of Appeal.

Emergency legislation is being drafted to close a legal loophole on suspended sentences after a prisoner walked free from court on the grounds his detention was unconstitutional.

A farm family had no choice but to defend proceedings against a 123-year-old rowing club, some of whose members had “aggressively pursued” a claim for a right of way through the lands, a judge said yesterday.

A Westmeath resident who alerted his employers to the fact he had stolen over €2,000 from clients in mortgage arrears has avoided jail.

A woman accused of helping her friend take her own life denied to gardaí she knowingly paid for lethal drugs for the deceased.

A man who stole the car of a woman during their first date has been jailed for 18 months.

A man who stole the car of a woman during their first date has been jailed for 18 months.

A burglar who stole a safe containing €190,000 worth of jewellery which he sold “as scrap” for €500 worth of heroin has been jailed for four years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A civil servant who, while working as an administrative officer with the court service, embezzled over €35,000 that was to be paid against fines, has been sentenced to a year in prison.

The landlord of Dublin’s Café en Seine bar is refusing to consent to a bank-appointed receiver’s proposed assignment of a lease on the premises so it can be sold for €5m, it was claimed in the Commercial Court yesterday.

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A lung cancer survivor who said he grew cannabis plants partly for pain relief has avoided going to jail.

A man who dropped his child to fight a taxi driver in a road rage attack in Dublin has been jailed.

A child abuser facing sentence for molesting his five-year-old nephew has failed to show up for his sentencing hearing today.

By Ray Managh

Irish President Michael D Higgins has led tributes to Team Ireland on their outstanding performance at the London Paralympic Games.

Wexford's Daragh McDonald is in 50 metres freestyle final this evening having come eighth overall in this morning's heats.

Kilkenny native James Dwyer added a sixth place in the Freestyle final to his team bronze medal at the Paralympics this morning in London, on his 16 year-old gelding Orlando.

Des Smyth won his second Travis Perkins plc Senior Masters title in three years with a superb four under par 68 in the final round at Woburn.

Para-Olympian Helen Kearney showed she has what it takes yesterday, when placing third in her grade on the second day of the team equestrian competition in London.

James Dwyer, originally from Carrigeen in Co Kilkenny, this morning claimed fourth place in the Grade IV para equestrian dressage competition at the Paralympics in Greenwich Park, London.

Eilish Byrne’s spirits were high yesterday afternoon after placing seventh of 23 riders on the first day of the London Paralympics.

Riders had to dip into their own pockets after expected funding for the Paralympics did not materialise, according to their chef d’equipe.

Para-equestrian riders had to dip into their own pockets, after expected funding for the Paralympics did not materialise, according to their chef d’equipe.

A teenager who crashed into a stationary Garda Special Branch car, which was escorting former Taoiseach Brian Cowen, during a high-speed garda chase has today avoided a jail term at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

One in a dress and the other in an ill-fitting suit, two men tried to rob a building society in what was described in court as a “shambolic operation”.

FIANNA Fáil deputy leader Éamon Ó Cuív will be joined as a defendant to High Court proceedings following his participation in a right-of-way protest through the grounds of Ashford Castle in defiance of a High Court injunction.

There is no mental health treatment centre here capable of caring for a teenage girl whose violent temper has resulted in 30 convictions for assault, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

The State has seized €95,000 from a convicted bank robber who claimed the money originated in a lottery win.

A drug addict who briefly drove a Dublin Bus after assaulting the driver and later committed a robbery has been given a three-and-a-half-year sentence.

A Dublin man who cut an acquaintance’s ear with a Stanley knife because he wrongly believed the victim was in a relationship with his former partner has been sentenced to 18 months with six suspended.

A robber who used a taxi from a nearby rank as his getaway car has been given a three-year suspended sentence by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE wife of missing solicitor Michael Lynn has told the High Court she remains in touch with her husband and last saw him just over a week ago in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia.

THE widow of TD Liam Lawlor is to ask the High Court to determine what effect his death has had on legal proceedings in which the Mahon planning tribunal is seeking orders relating to the couple’s home and lands in Lucan, Co Dublin, to satisfy debts of €575,000 in legal costs.

WITH estimated liabilities of about €80 million, solicitor Michael Lynn is to be cross-examined by lawyers for the Law Society over two days in the High Court about his dealings in relation to six properties. The hearing was fixed yesterday to open on December 12.

YOUR readers might be able to help us in our efforts to write a history of the Dwyer family involvement in two of Cork’s major companies of yesteryear - Dwyer & Co and Sunbeam Wolsey.

Cormac O’Keeffe

THE €41-million sale of the former 90-acre military barracks at Ballincollig can go ahead.