An American wanted in connection with a multimillion-dollar fraud has been deported from Ireland, where he fled ahead of being charged with multiple offences.

A solicitor and his wife were declared bankrupt in London yesterday just as a bank sought to have them questioned in the Dublin High Court over “alarming” discrepancies in statements about their assets.

THREE family homes were repossessed by lenders in the Dublin High Court yesterday.

Allied Irish Bank was effectively nationalised today after the Government got the green light to pump in another €3.7bn of taxpayers’ money.

A former Roman Catholic priest is in US federal custody in California, awaiting extradition to face sex abuse charges in his native Ireland.

A HIGH Court judge has warned banks not to put those in mortgage arrears in a “Catch 22 position” where they are up front about their financial situation but are not given any leeway in attempting to repay their debts.

TEN properties were repossessed by mortgage providers at a sitting of the Dublin High Court yesterday.

THERE has been a dramatic decrease in the number of repossessions orders granted in the Dublin High Court over the last month.

Prosecutors in the North today insisted there was a clear public interest in bringing the only man jailed in connection with the Omagh bomb atrocity before a retrial.

Medical reports claiming the only man jailed in connection with the Omagh bomb massacre suffers brain damage will be accepted as evidence in a legal bid to halt his retrial, it was announced today.

Supporters of the five men jailed over opposition to a gas pipeline being built across their Co Mayo lands today handed in a letter calling for the resignation of a minister.

The judge acquitted of possessing child pornography launched legal proceedings tonight against the State, the Attorney General and the Garda Commissioner.

The former nanny of Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan vowed today to appeal against a High Court ruling after failing in her bid to sue the star and her husband Don Burton.

Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan and her husband Don Burton were today ordered to pay their former nanny €1,500.

COMPANIES owed tens of millions of euro by failed Italian food company Parmalat are fighting to decide if the Irish or Italian courts have jurisdiction in the case.

Health Minister Micheál Martin was cleared of overspending in the campaign for last year’s general election today after a High Court Judge ruled the case against him had not been proved.

The Sinn Fein Ard fheis has heard a call for the release of an IRA gang jailed in connection of the 1996 murder of garda detective in Co Limerick.

Connections of Davids Lad must now wait until Tuesday to discover whether Ireland’s main fancy for the Martell Cognac Grand National will be allowed to run at Aintree next month.

Tony Martin hopes the Davids Lad case will go in his favour in the Dublin High Court today after landing a gamble with Xenophon in the Coral Cup on the second day of the Cheltenham Festival.

DAVIDS LAD cannot run at Cheltenham today after the Turf Club succeeded in having last Thursday’s court stay temporarily lifted at the High Court in Dublin yesterday.

Davids Lad cannot run at Cheltenham tomorrow after the Irish Turf Club succeeded in having last Thursday’s court stay temporarily lifted at the High Court in Dublin today.

Michael Kinane will ride Galileo in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes after winning an injunction in the Dublin High Court this afternoon.