A farmer broke down as he tried to explain the emotional effects of seeing his 1,000 cattle sold off.

An injunction has been granted by the High Court preventing anyone from interfering with the auction of 1,000 cattle belonging to Cork dairy farmers who were winners of RTÉ’s Ireland’s Fittest Family programme.

Judge Peter Kelly’s formal appointment as president of the High Court will go ahead on Monday, despite a High Court challenge being lodged in objection to it.

Developer and New Land League campaigner Jerry Beades has launched a legal challenge against the Government’s nomination of Justice Peter Kelly as the next president of the High Court.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell has said Bank of Ireland “set fire” to his business and “bullied” his family over the Gorse Hill property.

These bank AGMs have turned out some right fun in recent years. It’s an opportunity for the little people to have a go at the shower of bankers who dragged the economy over the abyss, yet managed to save themselves.

Gardaí are hunting for a man wanted in the UK in connection with rape, theft, and assault allegations; Usain Bolt is set to conquer the screens with a road to Rio film; a Russian supply spacecraft spins out of control and Brendan O'Connor’s Saturday Night Show is under fire over comments made about US President Barack Obama. These are some of the latest and most read news on irishexaminer.com this evening.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell and his wife have been granted an extension until 2pm next Thursday by the Court of Appeal to challenge a High Court direction ordering them to vacate a property on Gorse Hill.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell has asked the Court of Appeal if he and his wife should “continue to pack up” their belongings pending an early morning appeal of a High Court order to vacate their property at 5pm today.

IS Paul Howard an evil genius who manufactured the siege of Vico Road for his own ends? Howard is the prolific author of the Ross O’Carroll Kelly columns and novels.

THE long-anticipated wave of repossessions has suddenly turned tidal: 8,000 cases are surging though the courts.

Solicitor Brian O’Donnell claims he and his wife have paid €700m to banks worldwide but Bank of Ireland is the only one to have “persecuted us for five years”.

I just heard on the radio that the road from Foxford to Straide was closed. 

A solicitor was ordered by a judge to phone his father to tell him to leave his mansion on one of Ireland’s most exclusive addresses.

A bid by the adult children of solicitor Brian O’Donnell to prevent a bank-appointed receiver taking over the family home was rejected by the High Court yesterday.

A solicitor turned billion euro property investor is facing eviction from a mansion on one of Ireland’s most exclusive addresses after a judge refused a last minute plea from his family to halt a repossession.

It’s far from Grecian urns and gargoyles the original Land League was born, but its modern-day equivalent seemed right at home among the ornate security gates of the country’s most exclusive address.