As the Irish assault in Racice last Friday began, another positive development for Irish rowing was emerging at home; it was announced that Antonio Maurogiovanni had been confirmed as Rowing Ireland’s new High Performance Director, succeeding Morten Espersen who resigned earlier this year.

A couple’s occupation of a house in Co Kildare is holding up the proposed €5.6m sale of the property by AIB-appointed receivers, the Commercial Court has heard.

A major pharmaceutical company is seeking an injunction preventing the roll-out by a rival of an inhaler for asthmatics over alleged infringement of its trademark.

The Commercial Court will deal next month with an action by Aer Lingus aimed at preventing Ryanair issuing another takeover bid for the national carrier in August.

An unprecedented application to come before the Commercial Court today has cast doubt about plans by Eircom’s examiner to finalise a survival scheme with creditors on Friday for companies employing 5,800 people.

Today we describe the case of self-confessed fraudster Breifne O’Brien who, over 15 years, cheated relatives, friends and friends of friends. He used his privileged position — an affluent family, raised in a castle, private schools followed by Trinity — to swindle millions from others in his haute bourgeois milieu.

Hurling star DJ Carey is being treated in hospital after collapsing in a garda station.

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich today told a High Court judge that he never made notes and struggled to read his own handwriting.

ROWING: SKIBBEREEN are top of the Rowing Ireland Grand League points table coming into this today’s Cork regatta.

GREENCORE will apply to the Commercial Court on Monday to approve the appointment of accountancy firm Ernst & Young as “joint expert” to report on the proposed merger of Greencore and Northern Foods to shareholders of both companies.

A COUPLE and their company have sued Dolmen Stockbrokers for more than €1 million losses allegedly incurred through unauthorised use of the plaintiffs’ securities trading accounts to enter into transactions for Dolmen’s own benefit.

Timmy Murphy and Peter Monteith have yet to decide whether to appeal against their punishments handed out by the Perth stewards over the running and riding of Go Commercial.

A MULTI-MILLION dollar claim for damages has been launched in the High Court (Commercial division) by a re-insurance company, ESG Re Ltd of Bermuda, which has its primary subsidiary in Dublin’s Irish Financial Services Centre, against three firms of the world-wide accountancy group of Deloitte and Touche.