A Supreme Court ruling is expected this morning on whether a teenage traveller was indirectly discriminated against by a school's admission policy.

The Irish Times is to start charging readers for access to its online content from next Monday as it believes advertising revenue can no longer sustain its online journalism.

Independent News & Media has reported that its group revenues are 2.2% down for the year to date, when measured on an annualised basis.

Revenue across all sections of UTV Media’s business in the UK and Ireland increased in the first nine months of the year, helped partly by improving economic conditions and the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

The 15ft, 1,000lb beast is the largest ever killed in the state and had to be lifted with a digger.

Analysts expect Ladbrokes to cut its annual dividend payment to shareholders next year, saying consensus forecasts for the group’s current financial year look "stretched".

Celtic striker Anthony Stokes has been warned by a judge that his alleged assault of an Elvis impersonator is no minor offence.

The trial of a publican and two other men accused of demanding another pub close within 24 hours has collapsed on its fourth day.

A publican and two other men have gone on trial accused of demanding another pub close within 24 hours.

Tommy Barker is impressed with the work and thought that went into creating a bright home at the end of a dark period for a nine-year-old

A gangster murdered minutes after collecting his children from school had survived at least two attempts on his life.

The mother of a teenage boy has lost a legal challenge to a school's admission policy that she claimed indirectly discriminates against travellers.

Pub owner John Stokes, who is accused of threatening another Dublin publican to stop trading “within 24 hours”, was served with a book of evidence today and sent forward for trial.

A judge has given the State a final chance to complete a book of evidence in the case of Dublin pub owner John Stokes who is accused of threatening another publican to stop trading.

A judge has lifted a bail condition restricting the movement of Dublin pub owner John Stokes who is accused of assault, possession of stun guns and threatening another publican to stop trading.

A PUB owner is to be served with a book of evidence in December on charges of assault, possession of stun guns and threatening another publican to stop trading.

A Dublin pub owner is to be served with a book of evidence in December on charges of assault, possession of stun guns and threatening another publican to stop trading.

A CIRCUIT Court judge “erred in law” by quashing an Equality Tribunal ruling that a secondary school indirectly discriminated against Travellers by not admitting a 13-year-old Traveller boy as a student, the High Court heard yesterday.

The mother of a boy who was blocked from attending a Co Tipperary school will take her appeal to the High Court today.

A Dublin pub owner accused of threatening another publican to stop trading within 24 hours is facing additional charges for assault, possession of cocaine and having two stun guns.

GARDAÍ are investigating reports that raiders burned down a well-known pub after robbing €50,000 in bank holiday weekend takings.

An armed gang has held up the Dublin pub belonging to the father of Celtic star Anthony Stokes.

YESTERDAY’S circuit court ruling hinged on the school’s “parental rule”, which favoured boys who had a parent who previously attended the school.

A JUDGE has called on the Oireachtas to examine the possibility of mandatory positive discrimination in schools to ensure no group — such as the Travelling community — is excluded from enrolment.

A JUDGE has given gardaí more time to get directions from the Department of Public Prosecution in the case of a Dublin publican accused of threatening another to stop trading.

John Stokes, the father of Celtic player Anthony Stokes was remanded on bail today, after he was charged with threatening a business rival - ordering him to cease trading within 24 hours.

The father of Celtic star Anthony Stokes has been charged in court over allegations he threatened a business rival.

The father of Celtic star Anthony Stokes was arrested tonight for the second time in weeks by detectives probing dissident republican activity.

“IT’S not where I start, it’s where I finish,” was John Stokes response to a query on the starting price of last week’s auction of a 101-acre holding at Marlhill, New Inn, Co Tipperary.

The parents and uncle of Republic of Ireland striker Anthony Stokes have been released from police custody without charge.

An uncle of Celtic star Anthony Stokes has been released from Garda custody without charge after he was arrested with the player’s parents in Dublin.

Three people have been arrested after ammunition was seized in a pub ordered to remove a 40ft banner barring the Queen of England during her state visit to Ireland.

“A LOVELY farm, and some of the best quality land you’d ever walk,” says John Stokes of a farm at Marlhill, New Inn, Co Tipperary, situated cheek by jowl with Rockwell College.

A SCHOOL ordered to offer a place to a Traveller child after it was found to have indirectly discriminated against him is to appeal the finding in the Circuit Court.

FIVE men became involved in a “violent row” after a car-ramming incident in broad daylight at a busy city roundabout, a court has heard.

A CLONMEL school has been ordered to admit a boy from the Traveller community after it was found the school had discriminated against him by not granting him a place.

THERE are games taking place across several competitions throughout the course of next weekend, with the stand-out tie being the all-Tipperary affair in the Munster Junior Clubs Challenge Cup Final.

LUIZ FELIPE SCOLARI may not have a home record to match his Chelsea predecessor Jose Mourinho but he borrowed the Portuguese’s tactics last night as he demanded an apology from referee Mike Dean and linesman John Stokes.

WET, wet, wet — the weather can be on the side of the agricultural buyer at this time of year, because you get a good indication of how well land drains, following our January deluges.

The National Boy 1,2 & 3 Championships commenced at the National Stadium in Dublin yesterday with thirty seven preliminary round and quarter final bouts in the Boy 1& 2 categories.

WHAT a difference a bit of zoning makes. Two recent land auctions by Tipperary estate agents Stokes and Quirke show the price multiplier effect on land, whether it is used for growing grass or supporting houses.