Spouses and partners of customers in one of Ireland’s leading stores will be able to quietly anaesthetise themselves in comfort in anticipation of the shopping bill, a judge was told today.

It was a dream location for a meeting but might be the last day out so to speak before Enda and Joan prepare for their Second Coming.

A judge has heard how a British pub group plans to tackle drunkenness and disorderly behaviour in Ireland.

The mock-up restaurant in which the hit television drama Raw was shot for RTÉ is to become a reality.

The Taoiseach will formally reopen Lissadell House as a tourism attraction on Friday, following its four-year closure during a marathon €10m legal battle.

The owners of the historic Lissadell estate have launched a furious attack on Sligo County Council which they defeated in a multi-million euro row over a right-of-way.

Sligo County Council is facing a bill of several million euro after the Supreme Court ordered it to pay most of the costs of the long and bitter legal row over public rights of way across the historic Lissadell estate in Co Sligo.

Sligo County Council has been ordered to pay most of the costs arising from a multi-million euro legal action over a public rights of way row at the historic Lissadell Estate.

Sligo councillors yesterday attacked their officials and legal advisors for refusing to tell them why they went to court over rights of way at Lissadell House.

The environment minister has confirmed that the local government official who presided over Sligo County Council’s Lissadell court saga has walked off with a pension lump sum payment of over €250,000.

Sligo County Council may have to fork out several million euro in legal costs after the owners of the Lissadell estate won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that there are no public rights of way across four avenues through the historic grounds.

The owners of the historic Lissadell Estate have won an appeal against a finding that rights of way exist on the property.

A court is to decide tomorrow if a quartet of publicans, headed by night club entrepreneur John Reynolds, will foot the €100,000 legal costs bill for their unsuccessful bid to stop 'Masterchef' judge Dylan McGrath, getting a full public house license for his new restaurant.

TV’s Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath was yesterday granted a full public house drinks licence for his new €1.4m restaurant in Fade St, Dublin.

Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath told a judge he had no intention of turning his €new €1.4m restaurant in Dublin’s Fade St into a “public house”.

Masterchef judge and restaurateur Dylan McGrath is at the centre of a court case involving licensing objections to his new premises in Dublin’s Fade St.

By Ray Managh

Plans for a Leonard Cohen extravaganza at Lissadell House this year have been scuppered over a row about rights of way through the estate, an international promoter has said.

Plans for a Leonard Cohen extravaganza at Lissadell House this year have been scuppered over a row about rights of way through the estate, according to an international promoter.

AN action arising from Garda actions against a bingo hall in Cork city has been adjourned on terms that include gardaí having to give 24-hour notice to the operator of any likely district court warrants.

THE controversial 1,000-seater bingo hall in Cork city will open for business tonight after securing a temporary High Court order.

A Dublin nightclub has been let keep its late licence after management gave an undertaking not to allow a “knickers for liquor” promotion at the venue again.

THE owners of Lissadell House have secured it with barbed wire wrapped around poles and there are boulders blockading access to the Yeats Museum in a separate coach-house.

AFTER spending more than €13 million on the 410-acre estate they bought in 2003, the owners of Sligo’s Lissadell House yesterday looked set to appeal a High Court decision that public rights of way exist across the historic grounds.

Following a protracted legal battle, the High Court has ruled that public rights of way do exist at the historic Lissadell estate in Sligo.

A decision is expected today in the long-running legal row over public rights of way at the Lissadell estate in Sligo.

FIVE Irish food producers won prestigious Euro-toques Ireland awards yesterday for their services to Ireland’s culinary heritage.

Concert promoters confirmed today what Leonard Cohen fans have been saying for days – Everybody Knows the singer-songwriter will perform in Ireland this summer.

LIMERICK publicans will meet today to decide on their legal strategy to get court permission to open on Good Friday for the big Munster v Leinster Magners League game at Thomond Park.

THE Franciscan Friars of the Renewal based in Moyross yesterday said they may hold a prayer vigil outside Thomond Park on Good Friday to mark their disapproval of the Munster v Leinster match going ahead on that day.

The legal row over the existence of rights of way through the historic Lissadell Estate in Co Sligo has been adjourned for several weeks.

ELEVEN people are to lose their jobs with the decision of the owners of Lissadell House in Co Sligo to close the historic estate to the public.

GOVERNMENT proposals to license café bars to sell alcohol will not increase its consumption, Justice Minister Michael McDowell argued yesterday.

THE COUNTRY’S leading expert in licencing law has criticised Government plans for new-style café bar licences saying the move will result in an increase in binge drinking.

It is crazy to have the Department of Health appoint a Strategic Task Force on Alcohol and then ignore its recommendations.

A night-club owned by former Ireland rugby international Peter Clohessy has lost up to €15,000 a week since a court ruled that last orders had to be served by 1.30am, Limerick Circuit Court heard today.

GARDAÍ are to object to the renewal of licences for lapdancing clubs as part of a concerted clampdown on the industry, the Irish Examiner has learned.