The High Court will rule on Monday on University College Cork’s application for an injunction preventing picketing at some entrances to the main campus next week by employees of a research institute.

A chief executive received more than £1m in unauthorised salary bonuses and pension payments, it has been claimed in the High Court.

The Irish Medical Organisation’s long-standing director of communications Maria Murphy has launched High Court proceedings aimed at preventing her purported dismissal from her post.

The Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission has yielded to pressure and released an edited summary of its "fact-finding investigation" into how details of a suspected bugging of GSOC were leaked to The Sunday Times.

The Garda Ombudsman Commission has published a document which says there is no evidence that any of its employees leaked a confidential internal report.

The leadership of the Garda ombudsman is considering publishing an edited version of the internal report into the leaking of a top secret document.

The Garda Ombudsman yesterday said it would have referred the report of its leak inquiry to the "appropriate agency" if it had found any "definitive evidence" indicating a criminal offence.

A Garda Ombudsman "fact-finding investigation" has failed to uncover the mole who leaked details from a top-secret report to The Sunday Times

Two investigations into the GSOC bugging affair have left many questions unanswered, including who leaked the report, writes Cormac O’Keeffe.

A report commissioned by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) into the recent leak of confidential information has failed to establish any individual responsibility "either on the part of an employee of GSOC or any other party".

Ulster Bank has accepted provisional recommendations regarding how it goes about downsizing its operations and reducing headcount.

Ulster Bank has confirmed that it is to close a further seven Irish branches, including three in Dublin and one in Cork City.

With less than 48 hours to go until strikes could bring the country’s main airports grinding to a halt, tens of thousands of intending passengers will only find out this afternoon whether an attempt to legally prevent the Siptu action has been successful.

A former IBM employee who claims she “blew the whistle” on alleged fraud at the company was told by a judge her behaviour was self-serving and “far from heroic or honourable”.

Two childcare workers are suing RTÉ claiming they were defamed in a Prime Time programme.

An independent investigation is to be carried out into allegations of serious misconduct against a suspended school principal who is seeking a court order reinstating him.

THE union representing thousands of Bank of Ireland staff says its members will stop the bank from getting rid of more than 450 staff here if the Government derails the voluntary severance package on offer.

AVIVA management will come under fresh pressure today to reveal from which parts of its Irish operations it intends to get rid of up to 950 staff.

A SENIOR officer of University College Cork is seeking the restoration of payment of additional allowances which the college has not been sanctioned to pay him.

Bank of Ireland is cutting 230 jobs at its operations in the North and Great Britain as part of a restructuring plan, it was announced today.

The HSE is to appeal a High Court decision to grant two dentists injunctions preventing the HSE from restricting the scheme for free dental treatment for medical card holders until the dentists' full court challenge to the changes is decided.

TWO dentists have started High Court proceedings aimed at preventing the HSE from implementing changes to the scheme which allows medical cardholders avail of dental treatments free of charge.

Two dentists have commenced High Court proceedings aimed at preventing the HSE from implementing changes to the scheme which allows medical card holders avail of dental treatments free of charge.

Protesters who staged a five-day sit-in at a Thomas Cook branch were freed today after being arrested for contempt of court.

AN Irish Nationwide Building Society branch manager has asked the High Court for orders halting an inquiry instigated by the society into matters relating to his own borrowings and the handling of accounts of customers, including that of a large property developer who owes the society about e36 million.

HOSPITAL consultants are likely to reject latest management proposals aimed at securing a contract when they meet today.

LIKELY agreement on a new consultants’ contract after almost five years of talks is a tribute to the painstaking negotiating skills of independent chairman and barrister Mark Connaughton, who is tipped to be a judge soon.

The Irish Medical Organisation will meet with consultant talks chairman Mark Connaughton again next week.

The global search for 2,000 extra hospital consultants can begin now that an agreement has been reached on new contracts, Health Minister Mary Harney said today.

Minister for Health Mary Harney has tonight hailed the agreement of a new deal with hospital consultants.

THE Government has been forced to lift its threat to end contract talks with hospital consultants by Christmas and the deadline has been pushed back to January.

CONVINCING the public that health service reforms are working is her hardest battle, Health Minister Mary Harney conceded yesterday.

More talks are taking place today in an effort to agree a new contract for hospital consultants.

Consultants are to go back to the talks table to agree on new contracts.

ANY chance of a quick resolution to contract negotiations with hospital consultants were dashed yesterday after their representative associations have rejected the latest pay offer.

Consultants tonight branded new draft contracts offered by the Health Service Executive 'unacceptable'.

The Minister for Health has said that she supports the proposal to resume consultant contact negotiations.

HOSPITAL consultants have largely heeded their unions’ warnings not to apply for the new posts advertised under an imposed work contract, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has claimed.

ONE of the hospital consultant organisations involved in the collapsed talks on new contracts has called for decisive action to avoid an irreparably damaging dispute.

HOSPITAL consultants have blamed political interference by Health Minister Mary Harney for destabilising talks on new contracts.

TALKS between hospital consultants and employers to agree a new work contract collapsed last night, on the eve of the Government deadline to complete negotiations.

The Government has given hospital consultants an extra three weeks to agree on a new contract, it emerged tonight.

THE dispute over the opening of Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) is just one of a number of headaches facing the Government in the run up to the General Election.