A 67-year-old woman, who turned down an €18,000 Injuries Board assessment for injuries she suffered in a fall, walked from court Friday with nothing other than a legal costs bill against her of potentially €30,000.

Wing-back Paudie Foley was the hero for Wexford as he landed a point in the fourth minute of injury-time to capture the Walsh Cup at O’Moore Park in Portlaoise.

“You just can’t beat games.”

A judge has told Dunnes Stores that they would be justified in barring an 18-year-old man from shopping in their store in future after he took an unsuccessful €75,000 defamation action against them.

St Brendan’s, backboned by Kerry stars Jack Barry and Diarmuid O’Connor, hammered Shannon Rangers in this Kerry SFC R3 mismatch in Tralee on Saturday night.

Former Miss Ireland and TV presenter Pamela Flood and her restaurateur husband Ronan Ryan may live without fear of eviction in their Clontarf home for another three weeks, a judge decided today.

Ray Managh Pamela Flood, her husband Ronan Ryan, and their four children were still at risk this weekend of being put on the street by the Dublin City Sheriff after a High Court judge refused to grant them a stay against a vulture fund’s legal permission to execute a repossession order against their home.

There was a deliberate move by former Miss Ireland Pamela Flood’s husband Ronan Ryan to frustrate and obstruct the implementation of a court order handing their home back to a vulture fund, a judge stated today.

A man who gave nine variations of an accident he suffered at work has had his €60,000 damages claim dismissed by the Circuit Civil Court.

A separated couple, who own a €1.5m Spanish holiday home, have had the second of two Dublin houses they own repossessed within a fortnight of each other on foot of a €2m mortgage debt with KBC Bank Ireland Plc.

Former Miss Ireland and TV presenter Pamela Flood can celebrate her 48th birthday tonight knowing a court has delayed judgment on any decision that would see her and restaurateur husband Ronan Ryan being put out of their €900,000 home in leafy Clontarf, Dublin.

Former Miss Ireland Pamela Flood and her husband, restaurateur Ronan Ryan, could be facing imprisonment within the next 48 hours for breaching court orders relating to the home in which they have lived cost-free for almost 10 years.

A judge has warned a man who continues to live in his re-possessed home that he may face prison if he does not vacate the property in the next seven days.

A separated couple with a €1.5m Spanish holiday home have agreed to sell one of two Dublin properties they own in order to settle a €2m mortgage debt with KBC bank.

Businessman Bernard Rocca and his wife, Theresa, may avoid losing their €1m Castleknock, Dublin, home which a vulture fund claims it is entitled to sell off against Bernard’s personal business debts of up to €2m.

Former Miss Ireland Pamela Flood and her restaurateur husband Ronan Ryan may go to prison for failing to quit their €900,000 home after having agreed to hand it back to a bank to which they owed €1.2m.

Solicitors who handle what eventually turn out to be set-up accidents may be contributing to fraudulent personal injury claims, a judge said in what is the strongest criticism yet by the judiciary of some members of the legal profession.

The tide appears to be turning on fraudulent and exaggerated personal injury claims, an issue that has contributed to a huge rise in insurance premiums for businesses, home owners, and motorists.

Solicitors who handle what eventually turn out to be set-up accidents may be contributing to fraudulent personal injury claims, a judge said today in what is the strongest criticism yet by the judiciary of some members of the legal profession.

Barrister Damien Keaney told Judge Jacqueline Linnane today that he was in the High Court two months ago when Niall Kelly, whom he recognised, had turned up in the wig.

Elements within the construction industry who are owed money have in the past turned to helping themselves when it comes to recovering debts, the Circuit Civil Court heard when an interim examiner was appointed to a Co Dublin machinery rental company.

The examiner appointed to Dublin’s largest opticians chain has been granted an extension of 30 days by Judge Jacqueline Linnane to allow further time to form a scheme aimed at saving the company.

A new company, Opera Workshop is establishing itself as a focal point for local singers and musicians interested in experimenting with the genre.

Businessman Bernard Rocca and his wife, Theresa, face losing their €1 million Castleknock, Dublin home despite having the money in a legal account to clear off a mortgage debt of €131,000 and a second mortgage debt of 10 cent, a court heard today.

A 27-year-old married man from Cameroon who is living in Dublin has withdrawn a €60,000 damages claim against the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland who had appeared on behalf of an uninsured driver following an alleged rear-ending accident.

A 74th minute strike from Shane Bennett decided a game of two halves in stormy weather at Walsh Park this afternoon.

Former Miss Ireland and TV star Pamela Flood and husband Ronan Ryan will not have to pay any of the €1.2m debt they owe against the plush North Dublin home they have lived in rent free for the past nine years.

TV presenter, Glenda Gilson’s parents, Noel and Aileen, may have raised enough independent finance to save their home, at 16 College Gate, Castleknock, Dublin 15, from repossession, a court heard yesterday.

Dublin football star Diarmuid Connolly “acted despicably,” and “cynically avoided service” on him of personal injuries proceedings alleging he assaulted Anthony Kelly five years ago, the Circuit Civil Court heard yesterday.

A couple with an investment pot in the US worth more than €144,000, and a rental holiday home in Wexford, have been given another chance of saving their €550,000 Dublin residence from being repossessed by a bank.

Zurich Insurance and the Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) believe they have uncovered a multimillion-euro Eastern European fraud ring behind fraudulent damages claims arising from staged accidents.

Zurich Insurance and the MIBI believe they have uncovered an organised and sophisticated multi-million-euro Eastern European fraud ring behind fraudulent damages claims arising from staged accidents, a judge was told today.

A five-month-old girl suffered a catalogue of injuries including a skull fracture, a broken arm along with a broken left and broken right leg under the care of her then 19-year-old mother.

Dublin city councillor Nial Ring and his wife, Joyce, have lost their family home in leafy Clontarf to Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank.

A Dublin couple, who reneged on their mortgage repayments just under four years ago, lost their upmarket Castleknock home to “the governor and company of the Bank of Ireland” yesterday.

Long-serving Kerry football kitman and Austin Stack Park groundsman Vincent Linnane has passed away.

A judge has ordered the sale of the home of a convicted paedophile.

A 36-year-old van driver who told a court he still suffered neck stiffness four years after a minimal impact collision has lost a €60,000 claim for damages.

Dozens of South Americans and Eastern Europeans are unlawfully being rented “living space” in a single Co Dublin house in dangerous, unhealthy, and cramped conditions, a court has heard.

A deserted mother of two has told a judge she believed her husband bringing her a cup of tea in the morning was to keep her from the postman — and news their finances were on the rocks.

A judge has warned a “failed promoter” he could be sent to jail if he does not get a “normal” job to pay back a debt of about €250,000 to comedian Mario Rosenstock.

A jobless lorry driver yesterday failed in a €60,000 damages claim for personal injuries arising from a road traffic crash less than an hour after he had settled a similar road traffic injury claim against his wife.

The almost whispered words of a man of obvious previous wealth could barely be heard in the court as homelessness threatened to engulf him.

An Italian designer, who claimed €75,000 damages for repairs to a wall, turned out to be “merely a tenant” and not the owner of property she alleged had been damaged by tree roots, a judge said today.