Late last month Slaney Foods International unlimited Company secured injunctions against persons it claimed had been blockading its premises at Ryland Lower, Bunclody Co Wexford.

Solicitors for Sean Quinn and his family are due to apply to the High Court today to withdraw from representing them in two legal actions involving the former Anglo Irish Bank.

Solicitors for Sean Quinn and his family have informed the High Court that they will no longer be representing them in two legal actions involving the former Anglo Irish Bank.

The Commercial Court has heard that the wife and children of businessman Sean Quinn were unaware that multimillion loans to the group were used to prop up Anglo Irish Bank's share price.

Superquinn's proposed sale to Musgraves is set to proceed after a petition seeking to have the company put in examinership was withdrawn.

All outstanding issues concerning the settlement of a legal row between Dunnes Stores and businessman Harry Crosbie over a €46m agreement related to the Point Village development in Dublin have been "finally put to bed", the Commercial Court heard today.

A legal dispute over the entitlement of an €8m share of the profits of a substantial property development company has been settled, the High Court was told yesterday.

A chartered accountant and son of the former Supreme Court judge Hugh O'Flaherty was given "substantial damges" after settlement was reached in the High Court today in a libel action he took against The Sunday Tribune newspaper.

A High Court judge will rule on Friday on a legal bid to prevent the Evening Herald from using the word "metro" in the title of a giveaway newspaper planned to rival a new freesheet due to be launched shortly.