Former politician Ivor Callely is being sued in the Circuit Civil Court by a tenant who claims he locked her out of the Chinese restaurant she ran from one of his properties.

Disgraced former politician Ivor Callely has dodged another stint in jail after finally settling a long-running debt.

After failing to turn up for a court action to have him jailed, former politician Ivor Callely has handed himself in, more than week after judge issued a warrant for his arrest.

A lawyer for an accountancy firm which sought to jail former politician Ivor Callely over an unpaid debt has rejected a statement that the case had been already settled by the time a court issued an arrest warrant.

A judge has ordered the arrest of former TD Ivor Callely, who failed to turn up to court to face an action to have him jailed for non-payment of a debt.

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An ex-Fianna Fáil politician and Minster of State who admitted fraudulently claiming €4,207.45 in expenses from the Oireachtas on forged mobile phone invoices, has withdrawn his appeal against sentence.

Showers are blowing in from the estuary and the wind-chill factor has the brass monkeys scurrying for cover. It’s early afternoon in the village of Baldoyle, north Dublin, and it is to here that Deirdre Heney is coming to tie down a few number ones.

Former TD and minister Ivor Callely will not have to return to prison following the State’s decision to allow him enhanced remission on the prison sentence he received for fraudulently claiming Oireachtas expenses on forged mobile phone invoices.

The State must pay the legal costs of former politician Ivor Callely’s successful High Court challenge over the minister for justice’s refusal to grant him enhanced remission from a jail sentence for fraudulently claiming Oireachtas expenses.

Former senator Ivor Callely has won a High Court action challenging a decision to refuse him early release from a five-month prison sentence imposed over fraudulently claiming Oireachtas expenses.

Former politician Ivor Callely has claimed he is “being punished twice” by not being considered suitable for early release from a sentence imposed over fraudulently claiming expenses, the High Court heard yesterday.

Lawyers providing expert advice to the Oireachtas banking inquiry have been charging the inquiry a whopping €264 per hour.

I used to work in a bunker. At least, that’s how it felt.

Former politician Ivor Callely is to be allowed travel to Scotland after the High Court yesterday varied the terms of his bail.

Jailed former senator Ivor Callely has been granted bail at the High Court, pending the outcome of his challenge to the refusal of the minister for justice to grant him temporary release from prison.

Former junior minister Ivor Callely is granted bail while the High Court reviews his remission status.

Jailed former politician Ivor Callely has launched a High Court action to get out of prison.

Former Junior Minister Ivor Callely claims he is being kept in jail unfairly over fears his early release would attract unwanted media attention.

Irish politicians have a lust for power and have totally forgotten the lessons of probity and good character left by Michael Collins, hundreds of attendees at the annual Béal na Bláth ceremony in West Cork heard yesterday.

Ivor Callely will be out of 23-hour lock up as early as today and will be given a job tending the grounds at Wheatfield Prison, it has emerged.

Jailed Ivor Callely has reportedly been moved to the medical unit of Mountjoy Prison.

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Ivor Callely is under round-the-clock observation in Mountjoy Prison’s acute mental health unit.

I’VE surprised myself by feeling a little sorry for former Fianna Fáil junior minister Ivor Callely this week.

So, were they small steps for a newly-found accountability?

Ivor Callely is spending his first night in jail. But has justice has been done?

Ivor Callely is on his way to a prison in west Dublin and could end up in a double cell — sharing a toilet and living space with another inmate.

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From leafy Clontarf to a little cell in C Block, from a Victorian red-brick residence to a Victorian prison, Ivor Callely will wonder whether the €4,000 was worth it.

WHILE some politicians like to quote Marx or JFK, Ivor Callely is more of a ‘Kung Fu Panda’ kind of guy, telling a Seanad probe into his expenses: "Yesterday’s history, tomorrow’s a mystery."

Ivor Callely will continue to receive a pension of almost €1,000 a week from the State as he begins a five-month jail term for fake expense claims during his time as senator.

Former junior minister Ivor Callely has been jailed for five months for fraudulently claiming mobile expenses while he was a senator after a judge ruled that his position at the time was an aggravating factor in the case.

ONE word stood out from the judgment that sent Ivor Callely to prison for five months yesterday. Entitlement.

Former Fianna Fáil junior minister Ivor Callely, who was sent to jail yesterday over fraudulent mobile phone expenses claims, came, maybe even unjustly, to epitomise the hubris and disdain a certain type of politician expressed so very freely for what most people consider decent, common-garden honesty. His arrogance was as unfettered and boundless as his character was transparent.

Former junior minister Ivor Callely has been jailed for five months for fraudulently claiming mobile expenses at Leinster House while he was a senator.

Former junior minister Ivor Callely will be sentenced on Monday for fraudulently claiming mobile-phone expenses at Leinster House while he was a senator.

Ivor Callely's sentencing for claiming over €4,000 fake mobile phone expenses has been adjourned until Monday morning.

The sentencing hearing of former junior minister Ivor Callely has heard he made over €4,000 from claiming false mobile phone expenses.

Former Junior Minister Ivor Callely has pleaded guilty to a further three charges relating to false mobile phone expenses claims.

Former Junior Minister Ivor Callely is due to be sentenced today for making a false mobile phone expenses claim.

Private debt collectors are to be employed on an “ongoing basis” to chase up unpaid Dáil bar tabs running into tens of thousands of euro.

The Oireachtas has been told to overhaul its ethics rules and tighten up the travel expenses regime for politicians following a Supreme Court ruling against a former Fianna Fáil senator.