A man charged with possession of child pornography has been released on bail including conditions his phone does not have internet access and he has no unsupervised contact with children.

Thomas Houlihan, who is now aged 10, later had to have a partial amputation of his left index finger, the court heard.

A High Court judge today warned that people who have sued over alleged delays in cancer diagnosis and alleged misdiagnosis may have passed away before their cases are heard.

A man has been jailed for 14 days for breaching a safety order in what a judge described as “unusual” circumstances in which he lived in a different part of the same house as his ex-partner.

A detective garda, whose face was slashed in a razor blade attack on an aeroplane as he accompanied a deported Nigerian man to Lagos, has been awarded €25,000 damages at a garda compensation hearing in the High Court.

The joint venture charged with the building of several new schools has secured a temporary High Court injunction preventing subcontractors from blockading the sites of the new facilities.