Irish Examiner journalist Ann O'Loughlin has launched her fourth novel.

A hotel which has been at the centre of a High Court dispute is expected to open as accommodation for asylum seekers in the new year.

A Garda has brought a High Court action aimed at compelling internet giant Google to take down a YouTube video with a commentary which he claims is false, malicious and is defamatory of him.

Facebook’s unprecedented Supreme Court appeal aimed at halting a referral to the European Court of Justice (CJEU) concerning the validity of EU-US data transfer channels will be heard in January.

A 52-year-old finance director has launched a High Court action challenging a contention by the pharmaceutical company where she has worked many years that she is "deemed to have resigned".

A High Court action which had potential to halt the promotion of hundreds of gardaí to the rank of sergeant has been resolved.

A couple who claim their home will have to be demolished and rebuilt as a result of allegedly defective cavity wall insulation works has sued the insulation company.

An American multi-national tolling technology company has failed in a High Court challenge to the awarding of the €200m-€400m contract to operate tolls on the M50 and on other roads in Ireland.

The Minister for Defence is entitled to change the rules for admission to the Army Cadet School and a disappointed student cannot seek to bind him to any particular set of rules, the High Court has been told.

An agent of Italy's top football league has secured a High Court freezing order preventing an Irish-based media firm from reducing its assets below a value of €18m.

Ryanair has received an apology in the High Court over two Irish Examiner articles published more than three years ago.

The mother of five who settled for €7.5m her action over her CervicalCheck smears was buried last week after losing her battle with cancer which had spread to her brain.

A couple with four children who had to leave an apartment complex operated by a housing association due to their alleged anti-social behaviour are now residing in emergency accommodation, the High Court has heard.

A young boy who suffered fractures to his two front teeth when he was struck in the mouth with a toy gun by another child in a play entertainment centre has settled his High Court action for €38,000.

Seven mobile homes occupied by between 22 and 25 people have to be immediately vacated and removed from a commercial yard in Dublin because of fire safety fears, the High Court has ordered.

The judge directed bona fide members of the press may attend and report such applications but, before the court sits to hear such cases, they must make themselves known to the court registrar and produce satisfactory identification such as a National Union of Journalists card.

A bank-appointed receiver has launched High Court proceedings against the occupants of a property in Pearse Street, Dublin.

The imprisoned boss of a fundraising platform business at the centre of an investigation into the alleged misappropriation of €3.8m in charity donations intends to contest High Court orders freezing his assets.

The State is to to pay the costs of a case in which the High Court blocked an inquiry into patient health and welfare at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin.

A High Court application seeking to jail professional golfer Kevin Beirth for alleged contempt of court has been resolved after he gave an undertaking not to hold himself out as having any association with the Professional Golfers Association.

A suspended solicitor has lodged €395,000 to the client account of his former firm following a number of complaints about him by clients, the High Court has heard.

Fiona Rosney today told a High Court judge she suffers pain every day since the accident when she fell over and hit her head off the ground during a third class PE game of tag rugby in the primary school yard.

A Co Leitrim man has lost his appeal aimed at allowing him seek permission to challenge the Yes result of the abortion referendum.

Legislation needs to be urgently enacted to address mounting difficulties with securing access to justice in the civil courts, particularly in the context of complex commercial litigation, the Supreme Court has said.

A High Court challenge has been mounted against a decision to allow a company owned by independent TD Danny Healy-Rae to raise the level of a Co Kerry field with construction and demolition waste.

The Supreme Court wants the Court of Justice of the EU to determine legal issues with potentially serious implications for the treatment of extradition requests from Germany and Lithuania.

A Co Tipperary company has withdrawn its High Court action aimed at allowing its horse to compete at next month's Dublin Horse Show at the RDS.

Five men who say they are "nomadic businessmen" have brought High Court proceedings arising out of income tax assessments issued on them by the Criminal Assets Bureau.

The State and Referendum Commission are entitled to their legal costs, estimated at more than €200,000, of successfully opposing two separate bids to challenge the abortion referendum result, the President of the High Court has ruled.

Millionaire businessman Dr Michael Smurfit will have to attend the High Court to give evidence in the case of a former K Club manager who has sued alleging he was threatened at Punchestown Races.

Independent News & Media has strongly rejected concerns of an apparent “culture of deference” within the media group towards its major shareholder Denis O’Brien.

A former K Club manager has claimed before the High Court court the man who allegedly threatened him at Punchestown Races was "the messenger of Dr Michael Smurfit."

A four-year-old boy who sued over the circumstances of his birth at Midwestern Regional Maternity Hospital, Limerick has settled his High Court action with a final lump sum payment of €15.5m.

Convicted murderer Graham Dwyer will find out in October if his action against the State and the Garda Commissioner aimed at having provisions of Ireland's data retention laws struck down has been successful.

Tressa Donnelly Reeves spent more than 50 years searching for her son. She told the High Court she was informed by a nun during her quest that adopted children don't want anything to do with their birth parents.

A company providing bespoke health insurance cover for certain foreign students here is challenging a notice that it must stop selling the policy to those whose courses last more than one academic year, the High Court heard.

A solicitor has been given time by the High Court to provide a full explanation for his deduction of €101,000 fees from a €396,000 estate held for a widowed client and her three children.

The president of the High Court will rule later on two separate applications for permission to bring petitions challenging the Yes result of the abortion referendum.

Kerry mother Emma Mhic Mhathúna and her five children who sued over CervicalCheck smears have settled their legal action for €7.5m.

An Bord Pleanála has told the High Court it made an error in its decision granting planning permission for a development of 500 housing units in north Dublin.

A shareholders dispute over the running of a distillery and gin school established on the grounds of the Listoke Estate in Co Louth has come before the High Court.

A man serving a 20-year sentence arising from the shooting of publican Charlie Chawke has failed to get a High Court inquiry into his detention on grounds he is illegally detained in an "alien" county, Co Laois, where the people are "GAA supporters to a child".

The Government has decided to change a law governing working time which excludes members of the Defence Forces and the Garda Siochána from its provisions, the High Court heard.

An application by AIB for summary judgement of over €2.6m against a South Dublin couple has been dismissed by the High Court.