A property development firm has obtained a High Court order blocking an objection against its plans for 60 new houses near Blarney from being considered by An Bord Pleanála.

A High Court judge has approved the scheme for the €145.6m takeover of Independent News & Media (INM) by Mediahuis.

A Court of Appeal decision is a major setback for hundreds of investors suing AIB and others over losses sustained after they invested in certain Belfry funds promoted by the bank.

Thirty-five investors who claim they were defrauded and lost more than €4m in an electronic-trading scam have had their case against an Irish-registered firm and four businessmen admitted to the Commercial Court.

People who watch live English Premiership football matches on illegal streaming sites on their computers, set top boxes and other devices will find the service blocked when the 2019/20 season kicks off next month following a court order.

35 investors who claim they were defrauded and lost more than €4m in an electronic-trading scam have had their case against an Irish registered firm and four businessmen admitted to the Commercial Court.

A legal action against former Anglo Irish Bank executive Thomas Browne has been listed for hearing in the Commercial Court for April next year.

The owner of two prestigious Georgian office buildings in Dublin's Stephen's Green faces receivership of the properties after he failed to pursue High Court injunction proceedings blocking efforts to prevent the takeover due to a €13m debt.

A British life peer in dispute with a trust over his occupation of one of Ireland's finest Georgian mansions is engaged in an "orchestrated and calculated strategy" to delay the completion of the sale of the property, the Commercial Court heard.

A firm which has provided security on Dublin's Luas since 2009 claims the operators of the light rail network have wrongfully left them out of the tender process for the contract to continue operating the service.

The operator of the country's only care and rehabilitation centre for those with acquired brain injuries believes attempts are being made by adjoining landowners to obstruct a much-needed extension to the facility through a right-of-way claim, the Commercial Court has heard.

A dispute between a wind farm company and a farmer over an agreement about access to his land for cabling has been struck out at the Commercial Court following mediation talks.

The Department of Education and Skills is suing a company over alleged defects in a €5m "rapid build" school which had to be closed for part of a term last year to allow temporary remedial works costing €1m to be carried out.

A judge has been appointed to carry out a scoping exercise into the death of Shane O’Farrell.

A couple has been refused permission by the High Court to appeal a decision to dismiss their challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s permission for construction of a wind farm near their home in Co Cork.

There’s plenty of room to swing a tennis racket or a golf club at a late sports legend’s home in Cork, writes Tommy Barker.

A motorist stopped in a line of traffic in Castlemartyr suffered a serious back injury when his car was rear-ended by a Ford Transit van where the van driver had fallen asleep. Yesterday he was awarded over €116,000 in compensation.

A High Court judge has deferred, pending the outcome of a further hearing, a decision on whether to direct payment of about €10,500 arrears of living expenses to Sean Quinn Junior and his wife.

A High Court ruling means restriction orders contained in the Companies Acts cannot be imposed on the directors of credit unions.

Goodnight Everyone, a charming tale about a little bear trying to stay awake as night falls, is Ireland’s best children’s book.

Two directors of a joinery firm which traded while "hopelessly insolvent" could be disqualified from involvement in companies for between five and 10 years, a High Court judge has said.

Some €2.6m should not have been paid to two directors of a company sub-contracted to carry out part of a €30m clean-up of the former Irish Steel site in Haulbowline, Cork, it has been claimed in the High Court.

A law lecturer wanted in Britain for making indecent images of a child has launched a last-minute legal bid aimed at halting his extradition to England.

Permanent TSB has told a couple they must accept the bank’s “derisory” €6,000 offer of compensation before it will repay €61,000 it overcharged them on their mortgage, the High Court heard Friday.

An environmental group has secured leave to appeal against the rejection of its challenge to a grant of permission for a wind farm in Co Laois.

Kim Haughton’s powerful installation uses sound and pictures to explore the stories of abuse victims, writes Richard Fitzpatrick

A legal battle launched by ex-tycoon Sean Quinn’s family against the former Anglo Irish Bank over €2.34bn loans has been delayed again – pushing it back to next year.

The future father-in-law of the man whose Nazi mask-wearing stag party in Prague sparked controversy has defended the group and said they didn’t mean to offend anyone.

A family of five suffered a traumatic ordeal on a Sunday morning when a drunken businessman home from New York banged on their door at 11.30am and demanding drugs and sex.

Several strategic investment projects worth almost €500m will transform Cork City and generate thousands of jobs over the next few years, the city’s business leaders were told last night.

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A geologist has cast doubt on claims that there is a vast reservoir of shale gas in west Clare of up to 3.86trn cubic feet.

THE Royal Irish Academy’s journal Biology and Environment doesn’t carry detective stories but there’s a fascinating one in its current edition.

Court documents have revealed that a woman whose husband killed her and two others at the spa where she worked said he threatened to throw acid in her face and jealously terrorised her “every waking moment”.

Three people have been killed and four wounded in a shooting at a spa outside of Milwaukee in the United States according to police.

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A new family-run funeral home is to open in Cork City, the first such business to start from the ground up in several decades.

John Gilligan has obtained a High Court order preventing the Judge from hearing the convicted drug dealer's appeal against his conviction for having a mobile phone in his cell from proceeding to sentencing him, should his conviction be upheld.

LOOK out, JK Rowling, the next superstar of children’s literature may be about to emerge.

HARLEQUINS will provide the Amlin Challenge Cup semi-final opposition for Munster should they prevail in Brive today, after the English side won a London derby with Wasps 32-22 at The Stoop last night.

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THE parents of a 15-year-old girl have been given a suspended prison sentence for failing to send their teenage daughter to school.