Efforts are continuing to resolve legal proceedings arising from the involvement of Health Minister James Reilly and others in the purchase of a nursing home in Co Tipperary.

A bid to secure the sale of a nursing home at the centre of a legal row could ultimately result in a €1.9m judgment order obtained last year against the minister for health and several others being discharged.

In 2000, 13 people including James Reilly came together to invest in the Greenhills nursing home in Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary.

The first National Animal Welfare centre is being officially opened this afternoon.