A High Court Judge stated it was never his intention that an injunction preventing RTÉ from reporting on businessman Denis O’Brien’s personal finances would restrict media outlets from fairly reporting on comments made in the Dail.

A two-month stay has been placed on a High Court injunction linked to the closure to the public of a branch of Dunnes Stores in Wexford.

A schoolteacher in Loreto College, Foxrock, Co Dublin, has been directed by a judge to pay €50,000 damages to a Dunlaoghaire jeweller he made defamatory remarks about.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has led tributes to popular novelist Maeve Binchy, who has died at the age of 72.