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A newly opened primary school in Co Limerick last night obtained a High Court injunction to prevent subcontractors removing goods over money they say they are owed by the main contractor.

The head of an engineering company told a Fianna Fáil TD over the phone that a man on whose behalf he was making representations about a redundancy was “a Sinn Féin f***er, sympathiser and troublesome employee,” a court heard today.

A lawyer representing Irish people affected by flawed hip implants has welcomed the settlement of the first compensation cases taken in the US.

Lugging stuffed schoolbags is uncomfortable and could even damage your child. Deirdre Reynolds gets some practical advice on lessening that load.

One in four primary-school pupils are developing back problems, including spinal injuries, due to the weight of the school bags they must carry throughout term time.

The medical device maker Smith & Nephew has issued a recall for part of one of its hip replacement systems.

Women who paid for defective breast implants by credit card may have a chance of getting their money back, it has emerged.

The sale of battery-operated E-Cigarettes, also known as e-cigs, is unregulated in Ireland, according to a product liability solicitor.

Unjustifiable delays by the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) are costing the country millions, an employment lawyer claimed yesterday.

HAIRDRESSERS across the country should be brought under Government control in a bid to cut the increasing number of injuries caused by unqualified stylists, a leading personal injury lawyer has said.

HUNDREDS of Irish women are being warned about faulty breast implants in a safety alert issued by the Irish Medicines Board.

THE limited compensation paid to victims of crime may be in breach of an EU directive, a leading personal injury lawyer has claimed.

A NATIONAL network of plastic collection centres for farmers has been announced by the Irish Farm Film Producers Group.

A 54-year-old man has been jailed for life for the murder of a Clare taxi driver in February 2005.

The 54 year-old man accused of hacking to death a taxi driver in Clare was "making up" stories about voices telling him to commit the killing, a forensic psychiatrist told a jury in the Central Criminal Court today.

The 54-year-old man who hacked-to-death a taxi driver in Clare faked his own kidnapping in the US to extort money from his uncle, a jury in the Central Criminal Court was told today.

The skull of a 56-year-old hackney driver allegedly murdered by his friend in Clare was 'severely fractured' by a 'chopping instrument', a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Clare man accused of murdering a hackney driver with a hatchet cried in a garda interview as he admitted the killing and said he’d never "even hurt an animal" in his life, a court has been told.

A Clare man accused of murdering a hackney driver with a hatchet got a 14 year-old boy to help him destroy evidence of the killing, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A man accused of murdering a Clare taxi driver told gardaí he felt he was "possessed" when he killed him, a jury in the Central Criminal Court heard today.

A Co Kerry man has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to the murder of a Co Clare taxi driver.

Recent violence in Clare shows that large urban centres do not hold the franchise on crime and violence, writes Mid-West Correspondent Jimmy Woulfe.

A 53-year-old man is due to appear in court in Co Kerry later today charged with murdering Ennis taxi driver Liam Moloney.

Two people remain in garda custody this morning after they were arrested for questioning yesterday in connection with the murder of Ennis taxi driver Liam Moloney.

There has been a second arrest in connection with the murder of Liam Moloney in Co Clare.

Detectives investigating the murder of Clare taxi driver Liam Moloney today arrested a 53-year-old man.

AN INVESTIGATION into the murder of a hackney driver in Co Clare centred last night on a man seen acting suspiciously near the apartment block where the victim lived.

Gardaí investigating the murder of Ennis taxi driver Liam Moloney have confirmed they have recovered a knife believed to have been used in the killing.

NEW information about the vicious murder of the Clare hackney driver came to light yesterday as the victim, Liam Moloney, was buried in Ennis.

A PATHOLOGIST'S report has indicated there was more than one killer involved in the murder of Ennis hackney driver Liam Moloney.

A HUGE forensic examination of murdered hackney driver Liam Moloney’s car was underway at garda headquarters in Dublin last night.

A KEEN sports fan, friends of murdered hackneyman Liam Moloney were surprised when he failed to show up for the Ireland rugby match on Saturday.

Gardaí in Co Clare have appealed for help from the public in tracing the killer of a hackney driver whose body was found near Ennis on Saturday afternoon.

A PRIMARY SCHOOL principal has banned a popular playground game called ‘IRA’ after a boy accidently fractured his arm.