A legal test requiring cervical cancer screeners to have "absolute confidence" before reporting a smear slide as negative would be "totally inappropriate" and have serious implications for women and screening programmes, the Supreme Court has been told.

A man who claims his former solicitor misappropriated a €190,000 mortgage loan in what a judge described as a "most unusual conveyancing transaction" has lost his challenge to the Law Society's refusal to pay him compensation in that entire sum.

A High Court Judge has expressed his surprise that a dispute over the purported expulsions from school by two students who posted videos on social media of another pupil snorting a white powder substance during class has not gone to mediation.

A 65-year-old Co Waterford man has admitted the sexual abuse of three children.