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A couple, who met at a tea dance in Jurys Hotel almost 30 years ago, are now embroiled in a legal dispute over a missing €40,000 from a joint post office account they shared, a court has heard.

There is a lot of furrowed browed tut-tutting about the rise of an unhouse-trained ‘nihilist’ left, writes Gerard Howlin

The State has lost a “colossus of the legal world” following the death of Supreme Court judge Adrian Hardiman, the chief justice has said.

Many tributes have been paid to Supreme Court Judge Adrian Hardiman who died suddenly yesterday.

A founding member of the PDs, a taoiseach-questioning inquisitor at tribunals, and never afraid to go against the grain, the legal profession has suffered a huge loss, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Adrian Hardiman has passed away.

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Irish politics must undergo urgent reform to address a culture of “secrecy”, unfair weighting of rules in favour of government, and “cronyism” links to private interest groups if a repeat of the economic crash is to be avoided.

The last time Mullagh won the AIB All-Ireland senior club title, they created quite a shock on the way by beating champions Glen Rovers in the semi-final over two decades ago. 

A surgeon’s “slip of the pen” should not have been the basis for him being subjected to the “extremely threatening ordeal” of a public inquiry by the Medical Council, the Supreme Court has said.

The State is to bring an application to dismiss an appeal brought by Joe O’Reilly, who is seeking to have his conviction for murdering his wife declared a miscarriage of justice.

Researchers in Trinity College Dublin have found a link between the genetics of some forms of motor neurone disease (MND) and a range of psychiatric diseases.

It isn’t every day that Trinity College students get the pleasure of seeing their professor endure a head to toe drenching but, then, Orla Hardiman is not your everyday academic.

A blueprint for the new National Children's Hospital has been approved.

The head of the Children's Hospital Group has said that she is confident the National Paediatric Hospital will open its doors in 2018.

Dublin criminal and serial child abuser Stephen "Rossi" Walsh will apply for bail pending appeals against his separate convictions for rape, indecent assault and defilement of a child.

Half of motor neurone disease patients in need of discretionary medical cards are seeing their applications turned down by the HSE, a top clinician has said.

AT a national healthcare conference in 2011, Eilísh Hardiman, then CEO of the board driving the development of a new national children’s hospital, set out the parameters for what the proposed new facility should look like.

An increasing number of people with motor neurone disease are having their medical cards withdrawn, while many applicants are being refused outright by the HSE.

Colm Murray was honoured by a People of the Year award in September 2012 in recognition of his efforts to further medical research into motor neurone disease, writes Dan Buckley

Garda killer Noel Callan will walk free in under two years after a landmark judgment in the Supreme Court ruled he was eligible for remission on his 40-year sentence.

A mother-of-four has failed in her appeal against her conviction and 10-year sentence for killing an English new age traveller and submerging his body in a slurry pit.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has overturned the country’s first successful cold case murder conviction.

Lawyers for wife-killer Joe O’Reilly have been asked to indicate whether evidence will be adduced relating to issues raised in his grounds of appeal, which include circumstances in which a book of evidence was left in the jury room during his 2007 trial.

A Cork man has failed in an appeal against his conviction and six-year sentence for dangerous driving causing the death of two teenagers.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Supreme Court of Ireland for upholding the sovereignty of the Irish people in the McCrystal decision.

Businessman Anthony Lyons, who was convicted earlier in the year of sexual assault, may be released from prison before the hearing on the leniency of the sentence imposed has been heard.

A hearing date on the leniency of the sentence imposed on Anthony Lyons, a businessman convicted of sexual assault, has been applied for at the Court of Criminal Appeal by the DPP.

A Supreme Court judge has said it will be a “disgrace to the nation and the State” if it is proven that there was corruption at the highest level of Government in the awarding of a mobile phone licence to Esat Digifone.

Claims patients will not pay for HSE overspends are wrong — care will be hit if costs are cut, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith

It made “absolute sense” for a major acute hospital to use an overdraft facility to manage its cash flow problems, Health Minister James Reilly said yesterday.

The Chief Executive of Tallaght Hospital says patient care should not be affected by its decision to apply for a €12m bank overdraft.

Appeals brought by two men convicted in connection with the biggest-ever drugs haul in the history of the State have been adjourned to later this year.

The adult children of solicitor Brian O’Donnell do not have the resources to fight a case in the big business division of the High Court, it was claimed yesterday.

Management at Tallaght Hospital said a report into its substandard care of emergency department patients was “a wake-up call” to the entire health service and exposed a dangerous lack of leadership within the hospital.

Sick patients were put at risk by the State’s failure to hold Tallaght Hospital to account, the health watchdog has found.

The interim board of Tallaght Hospital has accepted the findings of the HIQA investigation into the quality, safety and governance of care given to adults requiring acute admission at the hospital.

Ian Bailey walked free from the Supreme Court yesterday after the five-judge court ruled he cannot be extradited to France in connection with the murder of filmmaker Sophie Toscan Du Plantier.