A receiver has been appointed by the High Court over shares in three Irish-registered aviation firms allegedly linked to a fugitive Russian businessman.

Disgraced solicitor Michael Lynn used around €3m belonging to his Kendar Holdings foreign property company to fund his personal lifestyle, the High Court heard.

Members of Sean Quinn’s family are opposing an application for court orders to stop them receiving any further living expenses out of accounts controlled by receivers appointed over assets linked to Quinn companies.

A claim Davy Stockbrokers was negligent in advising a businessman to sell investment bonds for around €5.58m which he alleged was at a significant undervalue has been settled, the Commercial Court has heard.

Irish oil and gas exploration firm Petroceltic was yesterday granted an injunction preventing an extraordinary general meeting that had been called by its largest shareholder, Worldview, from going ahead.

The bid by Irish oil and gas exploration firm Petroceltic to prevent one of its shareholders from convening an extraordinary general meeting will be opposed, the High Court was told yesterday.

Irish oil and gas exploration firm Petroceltic is to seek a High Court injunction preventing one of its shareholders from convening an extraordinary general meeting.

The High Court has refused RTÉ’s application to fully discharge an injunction restraining publication of certain information relating to the banking relationship between Denis O’Brien and the State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation.

Members of Seán Quinn’s family may deal with certain bank accounts and shareholdings and regain control of their cars provided they disclose material sought by the receiver appointed over their assets under an agreement reached at the Commercial Court.

A receiver appointed over assets of members of the family of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn has told the Commercial Court “huge” six-figure sums passed in and out of accounts held in the joint names of Ciara Quinn and some of her children during 2011 and 2012.

More than 300 people are to lose their jobs after the High Court approved the appointment of provisional liquidators to the company that operates a private hospital in South County Dublin.

From Oscar nods to BAFTA nominations, Irish animation is going through a golden age.

Members of the family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn are to seek to have the receiver appointed over their assets and his lawyers discharged.

A coroner is to write to health chiefs after an inquest disclosed the failure of hospitals to transfer vital patient information concerning the deadly MRSA superbug.