The scene of a rear-ending collision on a minor Co Limerick road resembled a scene from “an emergency Isis attack” with three fire tenders, two ambulances, and gardaí called out, a judge said.

A Mario Rosenstock fan has been awarded €4,500 compensation in a defamation action arising out of being asked by security for his ticket halfway through a gig at the Marquee in Cork.

An American woman who advocates for the rights of sex workers in Ireland appealed a conviction for cultivating cannabis at her flat in Cork three years ago.

A taxi driver, who a court was told yesterday was “lying through his teeth,” has withdrawn a €60,000 damages claim for personal injuries he allegedly suffered in a road traffic accident.

A six-year-old boy who seriously lacerated his finger on a gas fire in his home was yesterday awarded €30,000 damages against B&Q Ireland Limited and Focal Point Fires plc.

An army consultant therapist slipped and fell in a TGI Friday’s restaurant after her long dress and high heels became entangled, the Circuit Civil Court has heard.

A 55-year-old unemployed woman, who claimed she was defamed and falsely imprisoned for five hours after having been accused of stealing meat in an Aldi store, has lost a €75,000 damages claim in the Circuit Civil Court.

A 12-year-old schoolboy, who will be scarred for life after falling while attending a creche nine years ago, has been awarded €45,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A mother who overloaded her shopping trolley with her children and injured herself in a fall has lost a €60,000 damages claim against her local Tesco, writes Ray Managh.

A mother, who overloaded her shopping trolley with her children and injured herself in a fall, has lost a €60,000 damages claim against her local Tesco.

Zabrina Collins was ordered by a judge to pay €5,000 damages for a “vitriolic and personalised” attack on the character of a Mayo man who opposes the beliefs and teachings of the Church of Scientology of which she is a leading member.

An accounts assistant told a judge that when she refused to carry out “illegal” tasks, her manager told her to “just do the fucking job”.

A judge has awarded a grieving Traveller widow and her two brothers €30,000 in libel damages over a newspaper story which claimed efforts were made to bring home, from Germany, the woman’s late husband’s remains in the back of a van.

The former chief executive officer of Marymount Hospice in Cork who was dismissed from his post in February after seven months for "significant interpersonal difficulties" between him and other staff members failed in his application for a court injunction against the hospice yesterday.

A dog owner is refusing to hand up his three dogs for destruction and had “fled from dog wardens”, a court in Kerry was told.

A 76-year-old woman who had been dancing on 3in heels has failed in her personal injury and damages for negligence claim against the Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney for slipping on what she said was dancing powder as she left the ballroom floor in the early hours.

A retired nurse tripped and fell over kerbing in poor lighting on her way to the polling booth in Killorglin on the night of the last general election.

County Council officials stood on platforms so they could peer over a high metal fence to see if a small-time businessman they were pursuing through the courts was complying with planning on a remote section of the Ring of Kerry, a court in Killarney was told yesterday.

A 76-year-old woman is suing the Gleneagle Hotel in Killarney for negligence after a fall on its well-known ballroom floor, in which "the feet went from under her".

A sum of €16,000 has been approved for a child who sued his mother after she put her car into the wrong gear and hit a wall.

A PENSIONER bit and scratched a traffic warden in a row over a parking ticket.

A JUDGE has ruled that a Co Clare woman maliciously slandered a delivery man by falsely claiming he had sexually assaulted her while making a delivery to her home.