Mon, 06 Jul, 2020
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Thu, 26 Mar, 2020
Three prison officers have lost their separate High Court challenges related to internal transfers and bullying allegations within the Irish Prison Service.
Tue, 03 Mar, 2020
Regulations requiring certain information in packaging of animal health products to be in English only, rather than Irish and English, amounts to a State failure to properly implement a European Directive, a High Court judge has found.
Fri, 26 Jul, 2019
A 75-year-old man has had his conviction for raping his granddaughter quashed after reports were obtained to determine whether he was fit to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court more than a year ago.
Mon, 22 Jul, 2019
The High Court has ruled the State has a constitutional duty to make "reasonable efforts" to assign a bilingual judge in a District Court criminal trial as requested by a man who wants to conduct his side of the case in Irish.
Fri, 12 Jul, 2019
NAMA's demand for repayment of €32m outstanding in 2014 on loans obtained by a man for Dublin property investments was valid and lawful, a High Court judge has ruled.
Tue, 02 Jul, 2019
A school principal demoted after having been found to have emotionally abused a pupil by requiring her to kneel on the floor on two occasions has lost her High Court challenge to the disciplinary process.
Thu, 09 May, 2019
A local authority was "bewilderingly incompetent" in its conduct when it directed a construction firm to trespass on private land to carry out road and drainage works, a High Court judge said.
Fri, 29 Mar, 2019
A Meath man has been jailed for two years for the rape and sexual assault of his younger sister on their family farm and home which has been described as “a house where sexual abuse was culture”.
Tue, 31 Jul, 2018
Implementing sentencing guidelines is long overdue and, if properly implemented, could have a serious impact on the administration of justice, says Michael Clifford
Fri, 25 May, 2018
A correct application by the Oireachtas of its own rules concerning what is said in parliament would involve chilling “inappropriate” speech, a lawyer for businessman Denis O’Brien has told the Supreme Court.
Mon, 23 Apr, 2018
A seven judge Supreme Court will hear separate appeals this month by former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins and businessman Denis O’Brien.
Thu, 01 Mar, 2018
Two nurses have had their registration suspended for six months, plus conditions attached to their registration for a further two years, in connection with the death of an elderly patient in hospital in 2006 while in a chair with a restraint belt.
Wed, 13 Dec, 2017
Two nurses have had their resgistration suspended for six months, plus conditions attached to their registration for a further two years, in conneciton with the death of an elderly patient in hospital in 2006 while in a chair with a restraint belt.
Tue, 12 Dec, 2017
Ms Justice Una Ní Raifeartaigh ruled Oberstown was entitled to separate the four into locked rooms for periods of up to three weeks and that separation was not unconstitutional.
Mon, 06 Nov, 2017
A teenage boy expelled from his secondary school over smoking a cannabis joint is entitled to a fresh hearing of his appeal against the expulsion order, a High Court judge has ruled.
Fri, 30 Jun, 2017
Businessman Denis O’Brien has lost his High Court action over statements made by two TDs in the Dáil about his banking affairs after he had got court injunctions restraining RTÉ publicising that information.
Sat, 01 Apr, 2017
THE decision by the High Court yesterday to reject businessman Denis O’Brien’s action over statements made by two members of the Dáil about his banking affairs is to be welcomed.
Fri, 09 Dec, 2016
Businessman Denis O’Brien’s “target” in his legal action over Dáil statements about his banking affairs is the “future freedom of parliamentary debate”, the State has told the High Court.
Wed, 07 Dec, 2016
Fri, 02 Dec, 2016
Big themes were explored yesterday in the High Court action Denis O’Brien is taking against the Oireachtas.
Latest: Lawyers for the Dáil have begun their defence of a legal action taken by Denis O’Brien over remarks made by two deputies about his banking affairs.
Thu, 01 Dec, 2016
Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien will give evidence today in his High Court action alleging two TDs “clearly disregarded” the constitutional separation of powers between parliament and the courts when they made statements in the Dáil about his banking affairs.
Businessman Denis O’Brien wants the courts to “clearly demarcate” the powers of the Oireachtas and courts in his “unique” action over Dáil statements by two TDs about his banking affairs, the High Court has heard.
Wed, 30 Nov, 2016
Fri, 22 Jan, 2016
Tue, 03 Nov, 2015
The exceptional bravery of a 10-year-old boy who clung to the window of a moving 4x4 to rescue his sister has been commended.
Fri, 30 Oct, 2015
Prosecutors have told the Court of Appeal that the four-year sentence imposed on a 26-year-old man whose dangerous driving caused the deaths of eight people was too lenient.
Fri, 23 Oct, 2015
The costs associated with the marathon Graham Dwyer murder trial has helped push the lawyer bill for the first six months of this year for the Director of Public Prosecutions to over €7.4m.
Sat, 12 Sep, 2015
DNA profiles from two women killed in Grangegorman nearly 20 years ago were found on a jacket belonging to murder accused Mark Nash in 2009, a jury has heard.
Fri, 20 Mar, 2015
A forensic scientist told a murder trial jury yesterday that a mark on lino in a house where two women were killed 18 years ago was likely to have been made by a Caterpillar brand boot.
Wed, 11 Mar, 2015
The lead lawyers in the Graham Dwyer murder trial are two of the most in-demand criminal lawyers in the country.
Mon, 02 Feb, 2015
Garda outlines horrific scene at site of Grangegorman murders
Tue, 27 Jan, 2015
Three members of the State’s prosecution team in the long-running Anglo trial are the top three best-paid barristers by the DPP for the first six months of this year.
Mon, 04 Aug, 2014
The trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick on charges of failing to tell the bank’s auditors about loans he received has been put back to February next year.
Thu, 22 May, 2014
A man stabbed his mother 10 times with a kitchen knife and then kicked her and beat her with a brush handle until it broke as she lay on the ground, the Central Criminal Court sitting in Castlebar heard yesterday.
Wed, 30 Apr, 2014
A solicitor hired by Anglo Irish Bank has said he never gave any legal advice in relation to the 2008 loans to the Maple Ten borrowers.
Tue, 29 Apr, 2014
The three leading defence counsel in the Anglo trial shared over €1m (including Vat) in State fees for their work in the criminal courts.
Sat, 19 Apr, 2014
The trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives has heard from the head of the Garda investigation into the bank who described seizing hundreds of thousands of documents during a search of their offices.
Thu, 03 Apr, 2014
Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick met with Sean Quinn after the allegedly illegal Maple Ten deal to “mend fences” with the businessman who was threatening to sue the bank.
Sat, 29 Mar, 2014
The trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives has heard there was “a hotline” between the bank and the Financial Regulator about the allegedly illegal Maple Ten deal.
Tue, 25 Mar, 2014
Three former directors of Anglo Irish Bank have given evidence that they instructed the bank’s CEO to immediately inform the financial regulator that Sean Quinn controlled 25% of their shares.
Thu, 20 Mar, 2014
The former prudential director with the Financial Regulator has told the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives that he was not aware the bank was financing the purchasing of its own shares by 10 high net worth investors.
Tue, 11 Mar, 2014
Seán Quinn has said he suspected Anglo “were doing a sweetheart deal” when it forced him to sell his stake in the bank.
Tue, 11 Feb, 2014
The high-profile trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives including the bank’s former chairman, Seán FitzPatrick, will open at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.
Wed, 05 Feb, 2014
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