Developer brothers Michael and John O’Flynn are suing the Data Protection Commissioner over an alleged delay in finalising their complaint claiming Nama has failed to provide them with all their personal data that it holds.

The Garda smearing of a murdered man's name ranks among the most shameful episodes of the Irish state, Dublin's High Court has been told.

A law lecturer who fled England just before he was due to be sentenced for creating indecent images of a child has failed in his third attempt to challenge his detention here, pending his extradition.

A student with dyslexia has brought fresh High Court proceedings after his application aimed at securing a reader allowing him better understand papers in next month’s Leaving Certificate was once again refused.

The Irish High Court has jurisdiction to deal with a challenge by a group of Irish Investors, in a Radisson Blu Hotel in Southern France, against AIB bank’s threat to take over their shares.

The Bank of Ireland receiver appointed to McElhinneys fashion outlet in Athboy, Co Meath, is to ask the High Court for new orders — including attachment and imprisonment.

A soldier considered too fat and unfit to serve has been given leave of the High Court to legally challenge a decision of the defence minister not to allow him extend his military service.

A girl with “significant” special needs born in Ireland after her Nigerian mother claimed she fled here due to fears her unborn child might suffer female genital mutilation or human sacrifice has overturned the rejection of her refugee status.

Dozens of cases being taken against the manufacturers of allegedly defective hip replacements may be struck out following a ruling by the High Court.

Jailed former politician Ivor Callely has launched a High Court action to get out of prison.

A couple who have five children aged under 10 want High Court orders aimed at securing documents and materials used in preparation of a report which found they sexually abused three of the children.

A couple have finally been allowed to buy their 300-year-old Donegal cottage house after living in it rent-free for 16 years.

Author of The Field, John B Keane, would have travelled to Co Donegal to hear the case of a family split by a contested will over a family farm, a court heard yesterday.

Judges with the Mahon Tribunal have been made millionaires during their time presiding over the planning corruption probe, figures reveal.

A ROW has erupted between the Mahon Tribunal and a leading Oireachtas committee over TDs wrongly implying “incompetence” and “mismanagement” on the part of the inquiry.

A WOMAN who suffered severe rash burns to her armpits and groin following a bikini wax, has settled a €38,000 damages claim against a beauty salon owner.

Businessman Owen O'Callaghan is one of a group of individuals and firms that today secured leave from the High Court to challenge the Mahon Tribunal's refusal to furnish them with any draft findings that relate to them contained in the tribunal of inquiry's report.

SENIOR Allied Irish Bank manager Michael O’Farrell told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday he had no recollection of Cork-based developer Owen O’Callaghan announcing at a board meeting that he had it from “the horse’s mouth” a rival shopping centre would get no tax breaks.

PADRAIG FLYNN paid nearly IR£23,000 in gift tax following a political donation of £50,000 from developer Tom Gilmartin, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

AFTER admitting she lodged sterling on behalf of the Taoiseach, his former constituency office secretary Gráinne Carruth broke down in the Mahon Tribunal witness box yesterday.

THE widow of TD Liam Lawlor is to ask the High Court to determine what effect his death has had on legal proceedings in which the Mahon planning tribunal is seeking orders relating to the couple’s home and lands in Lucan, Co Dublin, to satisfy debts of €575,000 in legal costs.

TOP trainer Jim Bolger told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday a thoroughbred filly he sold to lobbyist Frank Dunlop for nearly £64,000 in 1992, broke her neck in collision with another horse on his stud farm the following year.

POCKETING a bulky envelope given by an English businessman before a Manchester United match in May 1994, former Fianna Fáil chief fundraiser Des Richardson discovered next day it contained $10,000 (€6,750) cash, the Mahon Tribunal heard yesterday.

DURING his third day of questioning, the Taoiseach agreed the stg£68,000 in five payments he was being quizzed over were “memorable”.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern yesterday gave the Mahon Planning Tribunal three different reasons for withdrawing IR£50,000 in cash from a bank account.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern has avoided potentially embarrassing revelations about his personal finances after the planning tribunal yesterday postponed its public hearings until after polling day in the General Election.

GOVERNMENT Senator Tom Morrissey yesterday told the Mahon planning tribunal he was offered a £30,000 bribe for his vote.

THE Government has moved to speed up the Planning Tribunal by allowing several hearings take place into different issues simultaneously.

ALAN P MAHON, the lawyer who was appointed to succeed Mr Justice Flood as chairman of the Planning Tribunal, has finally taken the media centre stage, but probably not in the manner he would have liked.

A FORMER Fianna Fáil councillor who met the political lobbyist, Frank Dunlop the day before an important rezoning motion was taken by Dublin County Council claims there was no connection between the two events.

THE Taoiseach was accused of concealing information last night after it was learned that he knew of Justice Feargus Flood’s plan to resign from the Planning Tribunal more than a month ago.

THERE are no records of Fianna Fáil member, Tony Fox, speaking at council meetings to discuss the development of lands at Carrickmines, Co Dublin, despite his claims that he had always argued strongly in favour of their rezoning.

THE identity of councillors named by Frank Dunlop as having taken money in return for votes on a controversial South Dublin rezoning project may become publicly known today when the Flood Tribunal resumes hearings.

The Government has appointed three new judges to the Flood Tribunal, eight months after first announcing the appointments.

The Government has appointed three extra lawyers to the Flood Tribunal’s inquiry team, a year after tribunal chairman Justice Fergus Flood requested the extra help.