A car dealer being pursued by the Revenue for 10 years in a bid to recover a €4.97m judgment has been warned he is at “grave risk” of being jailed a third time for contempt over allegedly still giving the Revenue the “runaround”.

The High Court has granted orders permitting the examiner of seven companies controlled by Galway businessman Gerry Barrett to enter into an agreement with an investor.

A fund's application for a €1.7m judgment against former AIB and Central Bank director Bernard Somers in relation to a loan secured on various assets, including his home in Foxrock, Dublin, has been adjourned by the Commercial Court.

A young man who claimed that he was still in a relationship with a young woman crashed head-on into a car in which she was a front-seat passenger and now that car’s driver has been awarded €12,000 compensation.

A young man who claimed that he was still in a relationship with a young woman crashed head-on into a car in which she was a front-seat passenger and now that car’s driver has been awarded €12,000 compensation.

People who regularly travel the roads of Ireland never have to be told the summer days have arrived.

A challenge brought by several small businesses to proposed changes to the conditions of public works contract applications has opened before the High Court.

A dispute over the implementation of the deal to buy out Masterchef co-presenter Nick Munier’s shareholding in Pichet restaurant in Dublin has come before the High Court.

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Mount Wolseley Hotel and Golf Resort, which owes various banks €60m, has asked the High Court for protection from its creditors long enough to put a rescue plan in place and save up to 175 jobs.

A businessman, described as the “driving force” behind a property investment firm that went bust in 2009, is unfit to be a company director, the High Court has ruled.

Sixteen parties have expressed an interest in investing in the five-star Muckross Park Hotel in Killarney, Co Kerry, run by businessman Bill Cullen and his partner Jackie Lavin, the High Court heard yesterday.

Kildare-based developer Dominic Fagan is being pursued by Bank of Scotland for about €88m over personal loans and his guarantees of loans to two property companies.

One of the first credit unions to offer debit cards to its members is in a dispute over the alleged ending of a deal with a company which provided the service.

Fallon & Byrne, the restaurateur and gourmet food supplies business that entered into examinership last year, was today granted a new drinks license by the Circuit Civil Court for its Exchequer Street, Dublin, restaurant.

THE High Court has confirmed the appointment of an examiner to award-winning iconic food business Fallon & Byrne.

The High Court has confirmed the appointment of an examiner to award-winning iconic food business Fallon & Byrne.

AWARD-winning food business Fallon & Byrne, which runs a restaurant and gourmet food hall in Dublin’s Exchequer Street, is insolvent and unable to pay a €1.4 million tax bill, the High Court heard yesterday.

Award-winning iconic food business Fallon & Byrne, which runs a restaurant and gourmet food hall in Dublin’s Exchequer Street, is insolvent and unable to pay a €1.4m tax bill, the High Court heard today.

PROPERTY developer Larry O’Mahony, who was adjudicated bankrupt in Britain earlier this year with debts of £197 million (€226m) mostly owed to Irish Nationwide Building Society, has lost a bid to be taken out of court proceedings concerning the Priory Hall apartment complex.

A HIGH Court judge has asked legal parties in a business dispute to either prove to the court the existence of a building or confirm its disappearance.

ANGLO Irish Bank has secured costs orders against Lorraine Drumm, wife of its former chief executive David Drumm, arising from the effective settlement of proceedings against her over the transfer of the Drumm’s former family home in Malahide, Co Dublin, into her sole ownership.

AN interim examiner has been appointed to takeaway chain Four Star Pizza after a judge heard the company is insolvent and unable to pay its debts.

THE High Court has reserved its decision on whether to approve a scheme of arrangement between a company alleged to have supplied animal feed containing harmful dioxins and those suing it arising out of the contamination.

The High Court has reserved its decision on whether to approve a scheme of arrangement between a Co Wexford company alleged to have supplied animal feed containing harmful dioxins and those suing it arising out of the contamination.

Bestseller Retail Ireland Limited, the company behind a number of well known clothing stores, has welcomed the appointment today by the High Court of an Examiner to the company.

BUSINESSMAN Brendan Murtagh is insolvent, the Commercial Court heard yesterday. Mr Murtagh and two other businessmen are being pursued for €28.1 million by investors related to Polish property deals and all three have had total judgments for more than €60m entered against them.

THE value of strawberry sales in Ireland has increased 6% since 2007.

THE Commercial Court, which fast-tracks commercial disputes, has agreed to an unprecedented application by the Revenue Commissioners to hear an action aimed at the “effective collection” of €10 million from two car dealers over alleged unpaid taxes.

TWO companies operating eye laser surgery clinics in Dublin and Cork have been placed under the protection of the High Court after it was told they have a reasonable prospect of survival.

THE operators of a restaurant outlet at Brown Thomas in Dublin are seeking a High Court injunction preventing the store owners from allegedly terminating their contract.

A High Court judge has said he is becoming “more and more reluctant” to grant court protection to companies given the high failure rate of examinerships due primarily to their failure to attract necessary investment.

TWO creditors of Chartbusters, which operates 37 home entertainment stores and has debts of€20 million, are opposing the continuation of court protection for the company, the Commercial Court heard yesterday.

A HIGH Court judge has extended court protection for two companies producing and selling pottery under the Stephen Pearce brand after being told two parties expressed interest in investing in them.

THE protection of the High Court has been removed from an asset management company with projects worth €1 billion.

Some of Dublin’s best known pubs and a major Irish fashion chain were fighting for survival tonight after securing legal action to stave off creditors.

AN electrical firm sought to have a sum of €41,000 dealt with separately in the High Court in a case where a construction firm is offering some of its creditors 75 cents in the €1.

THE value of strawberry sales in Ireland reached €46 million last year, an increase of 25% over the previous year.

MISSING solicitor Michael Lynn has been in phone contact with his wife Bríd Murphy in recent days but she does not know his whereabouts, a High Court judge was told yesterday.

GARDAÍ have been ordered to arrest solicitor Michael Lynn and bring him before the High Court this morning for failing to comply with an order requiring him to answer questions in court about property dealings that have contributed to his estimated liabilities of €80 million.