A defamation action by public relations consultant, Monica Leech, over a December 2004 article in the Irish Independent has been settled.

Johnny Ronan’s plans to go underground at one of Dublin’s best known Georgian Squares have fallen foul of city council planners.

The State has been ordered to pay the legal costs of a severely visually impaired man after he won a High Court declaration concerning the State's duty to vindicate his right to vote privately and without assistance in referendums and elections.

The High Court will decide today if it is to extend an injunction preventing anyone disrupting an auction of cattle belonging to a Cork family of dairy farmers who were winners of Ireland’s Fittest Family programme on RTÉ.

A High Court action brought over the auction of cattle belonging to a Co Cork family has been adjourned.

An injunction has been granted by the High Court preventing anyone from interfering with the auction of 1,000 cattle belonging to Cork dairy farmers who were winners of RTÉ’s Ireland’s Fittest Family programme.

A judge will give her decision later on whether to grant an injunction to senior lecturer and head of the Management and Marketing Department at UCC, Joan Buckley, who has brought proceedings arising out of the decision not to shortlist her in a competition for 10 professorial positions.

A university lecturer has launched a High Court challenge aimed at halting a selection process for the appointment of 10 senior posts at University College Cork’s school of business.

The way has been cleared for a woman who suffered institutional abuse to make a late claim for redress following the Supreme Court’s finding in favour of her challenge.

Judgment has been reserved in a Supreme Court case where a woman, who suffered institutional abuse while in state care as a child, was refused in her application for redress because she was too late.

An application to prevent the three Garth Brooks concerts has been listed before the High Court tomorrow — even though the shows are not now going ahead.

Legal proceedings to prevent the Garth Brooks concerts from going ahead at Croke Park will be heard in the High Court on Thursday morning.

Frank McClintock, the former head of the HSE’s ambulance service who was dismissed for the improper personal use of a fuel card, has been awarded €250,000 compensation for wrongful constructive dismissal.

Two childcare workers are suing RTÉ claiming they were defamed in a Prime Time programme.

The High Court has reserved its decision in Custom House Capital’s former chief executive Harry Cassidy’s challenge against orders freezing two accounts with the Bank of Ireland.

The stress for soldiers in trying to expose the truth about how three of their colleagues died has finally been acknowledged by the army.

A High Court judge has refused to grant the 18th Baron of Inchiquin, Conor O’Brien, a mandatory order for the recovery of his 37 ancestral portraits that hang in Dromoland Castle Hotel.

By Ray Managh

A High Court judge has reserved judgment on an application by Lord Inchiquin for the recovery of 37 ancestral portraits, including one of Brian Boru.

The 18th Baron Inchiquin turned up at Dromoland Castle Hotel in the early hours of the morning with a Northern Ireland removals company in a bid to unlawfully take family portraits off the walls, the High Court has been told.

Lord Inchiquin is to ask the High Court today to direct the return to him of 37 ancestral portraits that have hung in Dromoland Castle for decades before and since it became a hotel.

The Courts Service has revealed RTE’s bill for defamed priest Fr Kevin Reynolds' legal team was more than €150,000.

A SACKED bank manager has begun a High Court action against Bank of Ireland for damages, claiming he was wrongfully dismissed as a result of a “willful and malicious” conspiracy by senior bank officials.

Two paternity tests have shown that a Co Galway-based priest, featured in an RTÉ 'Prime Time Investigates' programme, is not the father of a Kenyan woman, the High Court has been told.

DEFENCE Minister Alan Shatter has said it “was absolutely clear” the road where the men died should have been cleared of booby traps before being used to source stones to fortify bases.

COLLEAGUES of the three murdered peacekeepers said it is not good enough that nobody has been held responsible for the order to send the men into an unacceptably dangerous situation.

THE state has apologised to the relatives of three peacekeeping soldiers killed in a land mine attack in 1989 on the basis of an independent report which found they should have been better protected by their commanding officers.

RELATIVES of three UN peacekeepers murdered in 1989 have hailed an independent inquiry into the incident as enough to expose a 22-year army cover-up.

Bereaved families of three Irish soldiers killed by a landmine in Lebanon 22 years ago said they have finally been vindicated.

PLANS to release a report into the controversial deaths of three Irish soldiers have been put on hold.

THE families of three murdered soldiers have welcomed the prompt delivery of a independent report into the circumstances which led to their deaths 22 years ago.

An independent review into the deaths of three soldiers in the Lebanon 22 years ago will be complete within four months.

GROUCHO MARX once famously said he didn’t want to be part of a club that would accept him as a member, but had he been a woman in Portmarnock the smile might have been on the other side of his face.

The Supreme Court has today heard that the State is seeking its legal costs against the woman who was sexually assaulted as a child by her primary school principle.

THE Supreme Court has been urged to rule that Portmarnock Golf Club is a discriminatory club on grounds its “principal purpose” is to play golf and not, as the club claims, to cater only for the needs of men.

One of Ireland’s most prestigious golf clubs was taken to the highest court in the country today in a bid to overturn its policy to refuse women membership.

A private bus company has settled their High Court proceedings against the Minister for Transport over a decision allowing Dublin Bus to change a route between Swords and Dublin Airport with the alleged effect of threatening the private company's business.

A PRIVATE bus company has begun legal proceedings in the High Court aimed at overturning a decision of Transport Minister Noel Dempsey to alter an existing passenger road service from Swords to Dublin, the 41X bus route.

Damien Richardson has been given permission by the High Court to bring proceedings aimed at preventing his dismissal as manager Cork City FC.

SACKED pub manager John Foley was “devastated” after losing his job running ex-F1 racer Eddie Irvine’s trendy Cocoon bar.

Eddie Irvine’s former business partner was the victim of a nakedly cynical strategy to oust him from their pub company, it was claimed today.