A number of media organisations have lost their appeal over an order preventing identification of a man who admitted sexual assault and attempted defilement of a child when he was aged 16 and she was 15.

Chances are Sean Skehan is either on the golf course or in the air while you're reading this. It's 45 years now since he essentially introduced to Ireland what we now commonly refer to as The Golf Trip.

The State's appeal against an important ruling in favour of convicted murderer Graham Dwyer will be heard in December.

Talks are underway in the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s children denying liability for some €415m under guarantees of loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies, the High Court has heard.

A High Court judge will rule next week whether Sean Quinn’s children can pursue a key claim their father unduly influenced them to sign securities for loans of hundreds of millions by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn group companies.

There was high drama in the Gaelic Grounds as wing back Denis Moloney popped up in additional time to send over Doon’s first score in 12 minutes to secure their first Limerick SHC final appearance in 18 years.

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.

It’s been six years since Bishopstown reached the Cork SHC final, when they fell just short against a strong Sarsfields team.

Amnesty International's Irish section has launched a High Court challenge to an order of the Standards in Public Office Commission that it return a donation of €137,000 for a campaign to increase support for a referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment.

A developer has been granted permission by the High Court to challenge a decision of the Minister for Housing to direct a change to a local area plan for Celbridge in Kildare.

An application by the State’s corporate watchdog for documents from Leslie Buckley, the chairman of Independent News & Media (INM) , has been adjourned at the High Court to next month.

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A High Court judge has raised issues with lawyers for the US government about the effect of findings of non-compliance by US intelligence agencies with restrictions on surveillance, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

The US government has asked the High Court to take account of a “significant” decision last month stopping the collection of a certain category of personal data by the US National Security Agency.

A local man has claimed the basis of a planning approval for a multi-million Euro wind farm project in Co Mayo means substantially less financial compensation for the local community.

Midleton 2-16 Bishopstown 0-12: There was only going to be one winner from this first-round Cork SHC clash in Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday and yet it wasn’t so much a case of 2013 champions Midleton being comfortably in control all through, more an issue of how closer Bishopstown might have been had they not accumulated 17 wides.

A 34-year-old man accused of raping a woman with Down syndrome told gardaí after his arrest that he had never heard of the condition.

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Richie Bennis has no doubts when asked which Patrickswell team this current side remind him of.

Bishopstown 1-20 Killeagh 1-11: Bishopstown retained their Cork senior hurling status in style at Riverstown on Saturday. One wondered how they were ever in this relegation decider such was their assertive and forceful play.

The Motor Insurance Bureau of Ireland (MIBI) must pay out on 1,750 outstanding claims following the collapse of the Setanta Insurance Company, a High Court judge has ruled.

The London Times has alleged before the Commercial Court it is legally entitled to use the words “Times” and “Irish Edition” in promoting a new digital Irish edition of the UK newspaper.

Limerick 1-23 Tipperary 2-13: Don Flynn’s Limerick made it through to a first Munster intermediate hurling final since 2011 with a comfortable seven-point victory over Tipperary in yesterday’s semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds.

Limerick 3-14 Clare 2-15: Willie Griffin played a captain’s part in Thurles as Limerick’s intermediate hurlers got a memorable day off to a winning start.

Bride Rovers 3-18 Bishopstown 0-25 (after extra- time)

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Limerick scored all of their 3-20 tally from play, as they claimed the Waterford Crystal Cup for the first time since 2006, at Mallow GAA Club tonight.

Tommy Walsh is likely to make his return to competitive football for All-Ireland champions Kerry off the substitutes’ bench, after he was kept in reserve for Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 opener against Mayo at Fitzgerald Stadium (2pm).

Cork 2-21 Clare 0-18: Waterford Crystal SHC semi-final: The Cork management vowed at the outset of 2015 to cast the net far and wide.

UCC have the possibility of making history tomorrow night when they face Waterford in the McGrath Cup final (Fraher Field, 6pm), but it’s arguably a distraction they could have done without.

Cheltenham Festival-winning rider Davy Condon, who fractured three vertebrae in the middle of his back in a fall at Cork in August, has been given the green light to return to the saddle from the middle of this month.

Who best to talk about Henry Shefflin than those who knew him best — his team-mates.

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Companies flouting health and safety standards have been hit with one of the highest ever total annual fines issued in this country, after 47 deaths occurred in Irish workplaces last year.

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The Supreme Court has reserved judgment on a key issue in an appeal by Nama against a decision that it is a public body subject to public access requests for environmental information.

The Revenue Commissioners have failed in the High Court to stop an appeal by Denis O’Brien relating to a finding that a tax return from him 14 years ago was insufficient due to it being completed in a negligent manner.

Revenue wants the High Court to strike out an appeal by telecoms owner Denis O’Brien related to a finding that his tax return 14 years ago was insufficient due to being compiled in a negligent manner.

Two firefighters who died fighting a blaze in Bray, Co Wicklow, in 2007 paid the "ultimate price for their courage and devotion to duty".

Wicklow County Council’s legal team has asked that recordings of phone calls made at Bray Garda Station during the investigation into the deaths of two firefighters be made available to their inquest.

Village Magazine and its editor, barrister Michael Smith, have apologised in court to Green Party councillor Mark Dearey for remarks it made about him in a planning “corruption special” last year.