A 59-year-old Cork man who was about to leave home for a holiday in Santa Ponza slipped on the stairs of his local authority flat complex and yesterday he commenced a High Court case against Cork City Council.

A man who raped a woman as she was drying her hands in a public toilet has lost an appeal against his conviction.

A man who slipped on algae on the steps of a pier as he was about to go for a swim has been awarded €59,000 in High Court damages.

The HSE should apologise to a little girl who has been left with dyskinetic cerebral palsy after her birth at a Cork hospital, her counsel told the High Court yesterday.

Former Lord Mayor of Dublin Royston Brady told a “complete lie” when testifying he had advised a hotel boss of a head chef’s propensity for violence before a decision was made to employ him, it has been claimed before the High Court.

A man jailed for life for the murder of his neighbour is seeking to bring an appeal against his conviction to the Supreme Court on the grounds legal issues of exceptional public importance are involved.

Former Dairygold CEO Jerry Henchy has settled his High Court action against the co-operative society over the termination of his €580,000-a-year position, plus bonuses and allowances, almost five years ago.

In a letter written after he was allegedly dismissed from the co-operative society, former Dairygold CEO Jerry Henchy claimed he had effectively “been branded a ‘thief’ by Dairygold”.

The High Court has heard a Filipino woman's attempt to become an Irish citizen was blocked because she works as a live-in cleaner and cook in the Argentine embassy in Dublin.

A brother of former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm has been ordered to repay €167,843 to Anglo over default on loans and on hire purchase agreements on vehicles including a 2005 BMW X5r and a Mercedes.

The board of Dairygold did not accept that its CEO should have made a decision about outsourcing milk testing and wanted a say on who should get the contract, the High Court heard yesterday.

The employment of former Dairygold CEO Jerry Henchy was wrongfully terminated for “spurious” reasons unrelated to how he did his job, after an orchestrated campaign involving Dairygold chairman Vincent Buckley and others, it has been claimed.

A Dutch truck driver who received a 10-year sentence for aiding in the importation of €5.6m worth of heroin hidden in a consignment of flowers must wait to learn if his appeal against his conviction has been successful.

A Polish woman wanted for prosecution in Germany under drug trafficking laws has been arrested in Co Wicklow.

A 75-year-old amateur golfer has been left with a hefty legal bill after he lost a High Court action for libel over what he said was a notice from his club which he claimed wrongly meant he had cheated about his playing ability.

An executive with Independent News and Media plc claims the company’s major shareholder, Denis O’Brien, was behind an allegedly unlawful attempt to oust him.

Two Wexford men who forced their way in to a woman's house and raped her while her young child was in an adjacent room have failed in their attempts to have their convictions and 14-year sentences quashed on appeal.

AS the thousands of trees she so lovingly planted on her farm in Tullamore over the last few decades begin to take on the beautiful russets, coppers and golds of autumn Teresa Tracy will have to rely on her memory to enjoy them.

A 65-YEAR-OLD woman is to be sent to prison for her refusal to comply with High Court orders allowing ESB and Eirgrid access to her land to complete the construction of a power line.

An appeal brought by two men who claimed they were “stitched up” by gardaí for the possession of heroin worth €43,000 in a wooded area in Co Cork more than two years ago has been dismissed this morning by the Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA).

Two men have failed in their appeal against their convictions for membership of the INLA linked to a tiger kidnapping plot in Cork.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of two men who claim they were “stitched up” by gardaí for the possession of heroin worth €43,000 in a wooded area in Co Cork over two years ago.

A south Armagh man who killed two people in a road crash over five years ago has succeeded in having part of his seven-year sentence suspended on appeal.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has upheld the 10-year sentence handed down to a former soldier who repeatedly raped a 12-year-old girl over a four-year period.

THE High Court has refused to halt the hearing of an action for damages by a Co Donegal woman over alleged assault by a former detective garda.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed a Dublin man's appeal against his conviction for the murder of a Chinese student who died after he was stabbed during a robbery.

A pensioner’s conviction for sexually assaulting his two young granddaughters was quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal today.

A Dublin man has lost his appeal against the severity of a ten-year jail term handed down to him for his role in a multi-million euro drugs operation.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has set aside the sentence handed down to a young mother of two for her role in the fatal stabbing of a Dublin man two years ago, on the grounds that the “totality” of the term imposed was unduly lenient.

The Court of Criminal Appeal today upheld the conviction of a Navan man for a drugs offence.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has today reduced the sentence imposed on an actor convicted of having ten stun guns without a firearms certificate.

The Court of Criminal Appeal (CCA) has today dismissed a father of two's appeal against the severity of the 13-year jail sentence he received for conspiring to rob a cash-in-transit van carrying €200,000 and drugs offences.

An actress and former Irish champion dancer has secured damages of €71,993 for injuries she suffered following a car crash near Dublin airport more than five years ago.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has refused to grant bail to a Dublin man sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting publican Charlie Chawke during a robbery.

A Galway man has had his conviction for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl more than a decade ago has been declared a miscarriage of justice.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has increased by two years the prison sentence imposed on a Dublin man for killing a truck driver in a hit-and-run incident after the victim tried to stop a group of people from stealing diesel from two trucks.

A Westmeath man has been acquitted at the Central Criminal Court of 10 counts of raping and sexually abusing his two daughters and raping his younger brother-in-law over an eight-year period.

The man accused of raping his two daughters and his younger brother-in-law has denied he "interfered" with any child in his life.

A Cork man who orally raped a foreign national has been jailed for 13 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A Dublin man accused of sexually abusing a young girl in the city over 20 years ago has been acquitted by a Central Criminal Court jury on all charges.

The Central Criminal Court trial of Dublin man on charges of sexually abusing a young girl in the city more than 20 years ago continues in legal argument today.

A Dublin man on trial at the Central Criminal Court on charges of sexually abusing a young girl in the city over 20 years ago told gardaí there was a "conspiracy" and the alleged victim was being "led on by someone".

A Central Criminal Court jury in the trial of a Dublin man accused of sexually abusing a young girl in the city over 20 years ago have been told they no longer need to consider seven out of the 11 counts against him.