A former soldier who sued over post-traumatic stress disorder, allegedly from seeing bodies of some of the 48 victims of the 1981 Stardust fire, has lost his Supreme Court appeal against the dismissal of his action.

A Supreme Court judge has queried why somebody didn’t shout stop and urge mediation before lengthy litigation was embarked on by a teacher over being required to undergo psychiatric assessment to see if she was fit to resume work.

Brennans the bakers were yesterday given 48 hours to change packaging on one of their brown bread products following a Supreme Court ruling.

IRISH Life and Permanent’s Trustee Savings Bank (PTSB) failed to act in good faith by concealing the existence of a taped telephone conversation with a customer, a High Court judge said yesterday.

MAJOR reforms of the Junior Certificate face opposition as a teachers’ union claims they can not be achieved while schools are suffering major cuts to staffing and other resources.

A HIGH Court judge has refused to interfere with a judgment recently delivered by one of his colleagues in relation to the sale of O’Connor’s Nenagh Shopping Centre, Co Tipperary.

THE leader of the 15,000-member Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has warned the union could withdraw from the Croke Park Agreement.

A RESTRUCTURED apprenticeship system is urgently needed to ensure thousands of partly-trained tradespeople can finish their qualifications and help the return to economic growth, a teachers’ union has said.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) is set to enter talks on the Croke Park public service pay agreement after members have voted to lift industrial action in schools and colleges.

ONE of the young children abused in the Roscommon case told a High Court judge: “We just want to be normal kids.”

The High Court has today appointed an interim examiner to the firm that owns and operates Zumo juice and smoothie bars.

UNMARRIED fathers are in danger of being excluded from their children’s lives due to outdated family law practices which are “unsustainable” as they do not reflect modern Irish society.

THE crucial views of teacher union members on the public service pay deal will emerge today after a week in which their leaders have voiced clear differences.

TEACHERS are spending more than half their working time in activities outside the classroom, with average working weeks of up to 46 hours, a survey has found.

The Teachers Union of Ireland has said that the Government is "hell-bent on demoralising State workers" after today's Budget.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has responded to comments attributed to Minister Batt O’Keeffe that elements of a deal related to public service reform almost agreed last week could form the basis for talks next year.

TEACHER unions have warned of inevitable industrial unrest, with one leader accusing the Government of lacking moral courage to reach agreement on public service pay savings.

TUI General Secretary Peter MacMenamin has said that the Government lacked "the moral courage" to proceed with negotiations with the public sector unions over pay talks.

The Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) today stated that any changes to the Junior Certificate programme should only be for reasons that would benefit students rather than to generate savings to the Exchequer.

STUDENT drop-out numbers will soar if the Government does not start investing to cater for a spiralling student population, a teachers’ union leader will warn today.

ALMOST 900 jobs were under threat in Dublin last night after the High Court appointed a provisional liquidator and interim examiner to a leading hotel and bar group and also appointed an examiner to a laundry company.

SECOND-level teachers and managers have rejected Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe’s assertion that only 240 teaching posts will be lost in their schools this autumn after provisional figures showed 3,600 fewer jobs.

CHILDREN who are victims of the Ggovernment’s education cutbacks will be less employable, suffer longer periods of joblessness and be a long-term cost to the State, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) has warned.

TEACHERS and lecturers in one of the country’s largest unions are being asked not to co-operate with school inspections or performance assessments just days after having a pension levy imposed on them by the Government.

THE Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) said it was regrettable that just as it was making its case for the education sector getting most of the 51,000 extra training places for the newly unemployed yesterday, news broke that FÁS was to get all of them.

A High Court judge has made a temporary order preventing a funfair in the Co Clare resort town of Kilkee from opening to the public.

A BOY was found dead, having apparently taken his own life, some four days after the High Court had made an order that he be immediately placed in secure residential care on grounds that he was considered to be seriously at risk, it emerged yesterday.

THE Supreme Court is to issue its ruling today in a tug-of-love case in which a couple is seeking to overturn a court order stopping them for regaining custody of a baby they gave up for adoption two years ago.

A four-year-old Indonesian child abandoned by his adoptive parents is to receive monthly maintenance payments from them and compensation of €45,000, it emerged today.

DISABILITY rights campaigner Kathy Sinnott yesterday set up a fundraising appeal to send an autistic child to a specialist centre in Wales.

The parents of a 14-year-old autistic boy today lost their High Court battle to have him treated for his condition in Wales.

BUILDERS Tom Brennan and Joseph McGowan must pay their own legal costs of over €2.6 million after the Planning Tribunal ruled the State was not obliged to foot their bill.