Alicia Shaw, now 24, befriended elderly Brid Murphy and went for shopping for her. However, when she got hold of her bank card and pin number she went on a theft splurge that lasted weeks.

Letterkenny Circuit Court heard how Alicia Shaw regularly took up to €700 a day using a bank card belonging to Ms Murphy.

Former solicitor Michael Lynn, who is on bail awaiting trial on multi-million euro theft charges, has brought a High Court challenge to a refusal to grant him disability benefit.

A years-long battle in the Brazilian courts over Michael Lynn being extradited to Ireland may be ended by a corruption scandal, writes Caroline O’Doherty

A consulting company has told the High Court that billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien has left “clouded in mystery” exactly how material from the firm’s computer files ended up on a USB stick placed in an envelope sent anonymously to Mr O’Brien.

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 south Dublin home of disgraced solicitor and property developer Michael Lynn is due to be sold at auction in the capital later today.

MISSING solicitor Michael Lynn has been in phone contact with his wife Bríd Murphy in recent days but she does not know his whereabouts, a High Court judge was told yesterday.

AN international manhunt for rogue solicitor, Michael Lynn, is well underway after he again failed to comply with an order to appear before the High Court in Dublin yesterday.

GARDAÍ have been ordered to arrest solicitor Michael Lynn and bring him before the High Court this morning for failing to comply with an order requiring him to answer questions in court about property dealings that have contributed to his estimated liabilities of €80 million.

FEARS that solicitor and property developer Michael Lynn may have fled the jurisdiction heightened yesterday after he failed to show up in the High Court to answer questions about a series of controversial property dealings.

ULSTER Bank has secured orders from the Commercial Court requiring solicitor Michael Lynn to repay loans of about €6.3 million while Mr Lynn’s wife is resisting application for judgment for some €7.6m against her on grounds including a claim that banks have a duty of care to customers.

TEN banks and other financial institutions which had dealings with solicitor Michael Lynn in relation to an unknown number of properties are to pool information to try and establish the extent of the solicitor’s liabilities, estimated at up to €50 million, the High Court heard yesterday.