An emergency law giving the minister for finance power to spend “possibly limitless” sums of public money supporting financial institutions via promissory notes was so general it could mean the minister intended to “save a village credit union or Anglo”, the High Court has heard.

A former Garda National Immigration Bureau employee has been acquitted of accepting bribes for issuing false visas to Chinese students.

The concluding stages have been reached in the trial of a former Garda National Immigration Bureau employee who allegedly took bribes for issuing fraudulent visas to Chinese students.

A Chinese immigrant has claimed he put two envelopes with "gifts" of €500 into the coat pocket of a former Garda National Immigration Bureau employee without him noticing.

A young woman who refused a transfusion after losing a massive amount of blood after giving birth in a Dublin maternity hospital has told the High Court she believed a transfusion was a transgression of "an order from God'' and she was "prepared to die'' for her faith.

Two local residents have withdrawn their legal challenge against the decision giving the go ahead to the €365m redevelopment of Lansdowne Road Stadium.

THE widow of the late educational publisher Albert Folens has secured a temporary High Court order preventing RTÉ from using an interview with her husband as part of its “Hidden Ireland-Ireland’s Nazis” television series.

THE High Court yesterday heard that U2 won’t pursue Lola Cashman for the costs of the court action.

JUDGMENT has been reserved in the case of a 41-year-old woman who is seeking to have frozen embryos created following IVF treatment returned to her.

A unique individual is created at the moment a human embryo is fertilised, the High Court was told today.

A “DRAMATIC” view has been taken by the Attorney General that documents signed four years ago by the estranged husband of a woman consenting to fertility treatment for his wife mean there can be a subsequent implantation in his wife of any resulting embryos without any new consent from the husband, the High Court was told yesterday.

A woman in the midst of a legal battle with her estranged husband over the use of their three frozen embryos today told the High Court they have a right to life.

Convicted drugs dealer John Gilligan today lost his Supreme Court appeal against conviction for the possession of cannabis resin for sale and supply.

GARDAÍ were aware, some months prior to Judge Brian Curtin’s appointment in 2001 as a Circuit Court judge, of “electronic transmissions” and the “matters now being investigated” by a Joint Oireachtas Committee set up to investigate the judge’s alleged misbehaviour, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.

THREE medical consultants who have treated Judge Brian Curtin have been directed to appear before the committee collecting evidence relating to the Circuit Court judge's alleged possession of child pornography.

THE special committee gathering evidence pertaining to Judge Brian Curtin’s alleged possession of child pornography is unlikely to have its work completed by the time the Dáil returns in late September.

THE High Court was yesterday asked to decide whether it has the power to prevent a computer alleged to contain child pornography to be used in an Oireachtas inquiry into Judge Brian Curtin.

Legal counsel for the Garda Emergency Response Unit has raised objections about proposed questioning by the Dail inquiry into the killing of John Carthy.