Two candidates in this month's European Parliament elections are seeking High Court orders allowing them to participate in an RTE television live debate.

Anti-eviction campaigner Ben Gilroy has been given a one month suspended prison sentence after he admitted being in criminal contempt of court.

A bank-appointed receiver has secured a High Court injunction requiring anti-eviction activist Ben Gilroy and several others to vacate a commercial premises in Dublin.

A High Court judge has directed an inquiry into the legality of the detention, in Limerick Prison, of a Cork mother for contempt of a Circuit Court order directing she hand over possession of her home to a bank.

A farmer, his wife, and several other people, including anti-eviction activist Ben Gilroy, are facing jail over alleged interference with a receiver appointed over lands in Co Kildare.

As fledgling candidate Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan took wing for Europe, veteran MEP Jim Higgins acknowledged he was poised to make his Euro exit.

The leader of Direct Democracy Ireland has resigned for personal reasons.

The controversial head of Rodolphus Allen Private Family Trust, Charlie Allen, has been released from custody after he gave an undertaking not to interfere with, or trespass on, lands in Co Kildare.

The leader of a mysterious trust, which thousands of debtors believed would protect €2bn worth of assets, has been arrested after moving into one of the properties signed into his organisation.

Ben Gilroy, a founder of the political movement Direct Democracy Ireland, has told the High Court he was “invited” onto stud farm lands in Kildare and had not acted in contempt of orders restraining interference with bank-appointed receivers to the lands.

A threat of jail continues to hang over Ben Gilroy, a founder of the political movement Direct Democracy Ireland, over alleged contempt of court orders restraining trespass and interference with receivers appointed over a stud farm lands in Co Kildare.

Ireland’s newest political party has already suffered the oldest curse of Irish politics — the split.

A year ago, a new political party was formed, promising grand ideals and a break from old guard. But infighting and a lack of structure has ravaged its intentions, writes Micheal Clifford

A quasi-spiritual trust has moved to assert control over a lucrative portfolio of properties signed into its care, by telling receivers and auctioneers to vacate the lands or face hundreds of millions of euro in claims.

Political activist Ben Gilroy is one of three people facing the prospect of imprisonment for breaching court orders by allegedly trespassing and occupying a Co Kildare stud farm.

Sales staff were forced to cancel a firesale auction of repossessed properties in Ireland amid allegations they were racially abused with anti-English remarks.

No new entity has challenged the political hegemony for long without imploding, so it is hard to see where an alternative to Civil War politics will come from, writes Michael Clifford

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has vowed to face down the challenges facing Labour after its humiliating defeat in the Meath East by-election.

It was hardly surprising that Eamon Gilmore was the only party leader who failed to turn up to the count centre in Ashbourne.

Labour’s humiliating collapse into fifth place in the Meath East by-election has raised question marks among some party TDs over Eamon Gilmore’s long-term leadership of the party.

Fine Gael candidate Helen McEntee said she was overwhelmed by the support she had received after her victory in the Meath East by-election today.

Labour is to push for renegotiation of the programme for Government after a dismal by-election performance in Meath East.

Fine Gael’s Helen McEntee is on track to win the Dáil seat once held by her late father in Meath East.

Fine Gael's Helen McEntee is on course this lunchtime to become the country's newest TD.

Fine Gael candidate Helen McEntee looks on track to win the Dáil seat once held by her late father in Meath East.

Counting is underway in the Meath East by-election and early tallies have Fine Gael's Helen McEntee ahead with Labour way down in fifth position.

Voting begins in the Meath East by-election today with the Government facing its first big electoral test.

A publican who re-opened her bar despite the fact that it was in receivership applied yesterday to have the case heard by judge and jury because it was such a serious case.

A couple has “reclaimed” their Co Cork pub from a bank-appointed receiver after having been locked out of the premises since last February.

An anti-eviction campaigner who helped to stall a repossession in Laois this year has backed the couple evicted from their five-bedroom home in Killiney.

People for Economic Justice, a group opposed to State payment to Anglo Irish Bank, today served legal papers on the Government.

The High Court has refused to grant a temporary injunction that would have stopped a €3.1bn payment to the former Anglo Irish Bank.

Two men from a group called 'People for Economic Justice', will represent themselves in opposition to the bad debts of Anglo Irish Bank at the High Court today.

Gardaí have denied they assisted a sheriff’s representative to enter a house in Co Laois and change its locks in order to repossess it on behalf of Ulster Bank earlier this week.

Numerous groups are fighting to prevent home evictions but can this campaign achieve success where others have failed, asks Jennifer Hough