A homeless family of seven who sued for “family appropriate” accommodation after living in hotels for 18 months will be housed within two months, the High Court has been told.

A judge has asked immigration authorities to do all in their power to ensure a 20-year-old mother receives daily visits in Mountjoy Prison over Christmas from her two-year-old child.

A Donegal publican who won almost €4.5m in damages can afford legal representation at a tribunal probing allegations of garda corruption, it was claimed today.

DONEGAL publican Frank McBrearty Snr will not have to prove his business suffered a downturn in trade during an alleged campaign of Garda harassment, it was ruled yesterday.

Three families of those killed in the 1974 Dublin and Monaghan bombings today demanded that the newly opened parliamentary inquiry into the atrocities be abandoned.