Dunnes Stores had no option but to sack a checkout assistant for selling alcohol to a 16-year-old schoolgirl who bought it on the instructions of an undercover garda, a judge has ruled.

Post Publications Limited, publishers of the Sunday Business Post, are seeking to appeal a decision of the Employment Appeals Tribunal that former treasurer Kieran Moloney was an employee of theirs.

A Dunnes Stores deli assistant, who was sacked after admitting she had eaten chicken wings and goujons without paying for them, has lost the €8,000 compensation the Employment Appeals Tribunal awarded her for unfair dismissal.

Environment Minister Phil Hogan is suing TV3, claiming he was defamed after he was allegedly described by broadcaster Vincent Browne as a "bigoted racist".

The detail of a €4m claim by film director Jim Sheridan and his wife, Fran, over alleged defective works on their luxury seafront home in Dalkey, Co Dublin, has been challenged in the High Court.

The legal row over the use of the secret recipe for spice burgers has been adjourned to early next month.

A company that makes Spice Burger has secured a number of High Court injunctions against a former director who it is claimed has been passing off burgers made by him as their product.