A little Cork boy who lost his right arm in a horrific lawnmower accident was yesterday awarded €1.5m in compensation.

A group of families in a north Cork village are suing a wind farm operator in a landmark case, claiming the huge turbines are adversely affecting their health.

The Criminal Assets Bureau will take ownership of a helicopter, a Ferrari, a Range Rover, and a bank account containing over €26,000 from a Roscommon car dealer who faced contempt of court proceedings yesterday.

A man's been ordered to hand over a helicopter and red Ferrari which the Criminal Assets Bureau claims were bought with the proceeds of crime.

A dispute over the ownership of a replica model of the Titanic — on display as part of Tall Ships Festival — has come before the High Court.

The High Court has today heard that bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn and his children are in breach of court orders obliging them to disclose details of their assets.

The owner of a helicopter and a number of cars including a red Ferrari F355, which the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) claims are the proceeds of crime, faces being jailed for contempt of court.

Irish rugby captain Brian O’Driscoll and several other Wexford holiday-home owners should have water restored to their properties once they have paid €2,000 each to a management company they are in dispute with, a judge has ruled.

The Chairman of the Referendum Commission, Mr Justice Kevin Feeney, is urging people to vote today on the EU Fiscal Stability Treaty.

European leaders will be firmly focused on Ireland today as it becomes the only country to give people a say on the controversial fiscal treaty.

Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty has lost his High Court challenge aimed at having the Referendum Commission withdraw remarks it made earlier this month concerning Ireland’s veto over the ESM.

Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty has lost an 11th-hour High Court challenge against the Referendum Commission ahead of tomorrow's vote.

A High Court ruling on a challenge by Sinn Féin's Pearse Doherty to the Referendum Commission will be handed down this morning, just one day before the vote.

A High Court judge is set to rule this morning on whether controversial remarks made by the chairman of the Referendum Commission should be withdrawn.

Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty has today brought a High Court challenge aimed at having the Referendum Commission withdraw remarks it made earlier this month in relation to whether Ireland has a veto over the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) from coming into being.

Internationally-based threats to the State’s security have motivated the small number of secret surveillance operations conducted by the Irish army in the last two years.

A strategically deployed tracking device helped gardaí monitor the entire production, importation, storage, and distribution network of a drugs gang.

State bodies have been allowed to snoop on suspected criminals since 2009, but a lack of resources has held them back from more cases, writes Conor Ryan

Hidden tracking devices have led to at least six substantial cigarette smuggling stings since the law permitting covert surveillance by customs officers was introduced.

It’s not the Stability Treaty, it’s the Stab Treaty — because all either side does is try to knife the other.

Ireland will not be able to access the European stability mechanism if it fails to ratify the fiscal treaty, the chairman of the Referendum Commission has confirmed.

Sinn Fein has said that Ireland should use its trump card - and veto the establishment of the new European bailout fund the ESM.

The independent Chairman of the Referendum Commission, Judge Kevin Feeney, has confirmed that Ireland would be cut off from one source of EU funding, if people reject the EU Fiscal Treaty.

A group of investors are to ask the High Court for an order allowing them to redeem their €832,000 loan on lands in Co Tipperary, over which Nama has appointed areceiver.

The Referendum Commission has been established for the EU fiscal treaty.

A High Court judge hopes to be in a position to give judgment on the minister for finance’s bid to halt a number of legal challenges to the Government’s recapitalisation of Irish Life and Permanent early next month.

A High Court judge hopes to be in a position to give judgment on the Minister for Finance's bid to halt a number of legal challenges to the Government's recapitalisation of Irish Life and Permanent early next month.

A number of legal challenges brought against the Government’s recapitalisation of Irish Life & Permanent should be struck out because those taking the actions lack the legal standing to do so, lawyers for the Minister for Finance argued yesterday.

The High Court has ruled that an Irish Life & Permanent shareholder’s challenge against the Government’s recapitalisation of the bank was brought within the allowed time period.

The High Court has ruled that an Irish Life & Permanent shareholder's challenge against the Government's recapitalisation of the bank was brought within the allowed time period.

A man who bought €200,000 of shares in Irish Life & Permanent is to appeal a High Court ruling that he is not legally entitled to represent the company in proceedings challenging the Government’s recapitalisation of IL&P.

A man whose company bought some €200,000 of shares in Irish Life & Permanent in 2010 is to appeal a High Court Judge's ruling that he is not legally entitled to represent the company in proceedings challenging the Government's recapitalisation of the bank.

A High Court judge has begun a hearing to decide key preliminary issues in actions by a number of shareholders in Irish Life and Permanent and others to the Government’s recapitalisation of the bank.

Convicted drug dealer John Gilligan has lost his latest legal challenge against orders that his assets and those of his family were the proceeds of crime.

The Criminal Assets Bureau has secured orders for the seizure of approximately €146,000 from a Co Sligo family which the bureau says are the proceeds of crime.

The High Court has granted a Dublin maternity hospital orders allowing it to perform, if required, an emergency blood transfusion to the unborn child of a Jehovah's Witnesses couple who is at risk of being delivered prematurely.

An Offaly woman could be jailed over her continued refusal to comply with High Court orders allowing the ESB and Eirgrid access to her land to complete the construction of a power line.

A HIGH Court decision upholding a challenge by fast food operators to an order setting minimum pay and conditions for catering workers outside Dublin has serious implications for the pay and conditions of about 200,000 low-paid workers.

THE Government will bring in temporary measures to protect up to 200,000 low-paid workers affected by a High Court decision on wage-setting mechanisms, Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton has said.

The High Court yesterday found that there were insufficient principles and policies in the legislation governing the Joint Labour Committee (JLC) system to permit it to operate constitutionally.

The fast-food sector has taken on the joint labour committee system and won.

THE Jim Mansfield empire is continuing to crumble after NAMA assigned a statutory receiver to a number of businesses linked to the high-profile developer.

Junior bondholders at AIB are challenging an order ensuring they share some of the burden of bailing out the banks.

DUBLIN-based law firm William Fry has settled its legal action against developer Liam Carroll over his failure to pay €3.3 million of a €4.8m legal costs bill.