Former justice minister Alan Shatter’s appeal against a decision of the Data Protection Commissioner — that he had breached data protection laws when he divulged information relating to TD Mick Wallace on RTÉ’s Prime Time — will be heard in November.

An assistant teacher at a Donegal secondary school had sex with a 14-year-old pupil after striking up a relationship with her on a Facebook page.

A taxi driver has been awarded damages against Dublin Bus after he was assaulted on a bus in 2006.

The owner of one of the country’s best-known nightclubs has been told by a judge to face the music or go to jail.

TV3 has consented to the making of a court order restraining it from rebroadcasting archive material it holds of two sisters leaving a court where a nephew was tried and convicted of murder and drugs charges.

A 17-year-old schoolgirl who developed “an inherent fear of showers” following a fire in her home has been awarded €22,500 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A baby girl, who was injured in a car accident two days before she was born, has been awarded almost €18,000 for personal injury damages.

The identities of dozens of Bank of Ireland employees, managers, and executives alleged to have exchanged lewd pornographic emails are to be sought in a fight by a sacked manager to retain his reinstated status.

A 9-year-old girl grimly held on to her seat to save herself after watching a friend’s mum fall 40ft from a funfair seat, the Circuit Civil Court has heard.

Two children, aged 3 and 4 when they suffered needlestick injuries while playing in a rubbish-strewn park, have each lost €38,000 damages claims against a local authority.

A pizza delivery man has been awarded €7,000 after a dog bit his finger when he was pushing a promotional leaflet through a letterbox.

A family of three, who had to flee their home for their own safety in the middle of the night, has been awarded damages for assault against a Dublin businessman and landlord and his two sons.

A 6-year-old schoolgirl’s right ear lobe split a month after having her ears pierced as a birthday present, a court heard yesterday.

A six-year-old schoolgirl’s right earlobe split only a month after having her ears pierced as a birthday present, a court heard today.

Two young children who were trapped in a lift at a Lidl store for half an hour have been awarded €7,500 each in the Circuit Civil Court.

Drunken parties in public parks are causing major financial hangovers for local authorities, a court heard today.

A court is to decide tomorrow if a quartet of publicans, headed by night club entrepreneur John Reynolds, will foot the €100,000 legal costs bill for their unsuccessful bid to stop 'Masterchef' judge Dylan McGrath, getting a full public house license for his new restaurant.

A man who walked next door and hit his neighbour in the mouth has been told by a judge to pay him €9,000 compensation.

TV’s Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath was yesterday granted a full public house drinks licence for his new €1.4m restaurant in Fade St, Dublin.

Masterchef judge Dylan McGrath told a judge he had no intention of turning his €new €1.4m restaurant in Dublin’s Fade St into a “public house”.

A couple, both of whom claimed to have developed a mental adjustment disorder after their 12-year-old daughter’s arm was pricked by a pin in a hotel bed, have been awarded €18,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A six-year-old child who was given a bird flu vaccine at school without her parents’ consent has been awarded damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A five-year-old child whose left leg was scalded by a spillage of tea on an Aer Lingus flight, has been awarded €7,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A Co Meath housewife has won a GAA club lottery on the direction of a judge.

A family that has not paid rent for the past 18 months is finally to be evicted, a judge has ruled.

Four children, who were injured while travelling in their father’s car, were awarded a total of €34,000 damages today against his insurance company.

Mark Keogan, brother of TV and radio star Hector Ó hEochagáin, was today awarded €85,000 compensation for unfair dismissal in September 2009 as manager of The George Pub and Nightclub in Georges Street, Dublin.

An accountant has been told by a judge to hand his €2m family home at Brighton Road, Rathgar, Dublin, back to the ICS Building Society.

A dry cleaners, which asked the Circuit Civil Court yesterday to fix a new rent for its store at Superquinn’s Knocklyon Shopping Centre, Dublin, will save almost €250,000 in rental payments over the 20-year term of a new lease.

An artist who alleged he was kicked and punched by gardaí in Store Street Garda Station, Dublin, has lost a €38,000 damages claim against the Minister for Justice and the Garda Commissioner.

A mother of three, whose social welfare has been cut off by the Criminal Assets Bureau, put over €210,000 in to a credit union account over the past 13 years, a judge has been told.

A mother-of-three, whose social welfare has been cut off by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), banked more than €210,000 in a Credit Union account over the last 13 years, a judge has been told today.

FOUR burglars had their Christmas dinner in a top restaurant after a failure in its alarm system allowed them to break into the premises.

FOUR children who were passengers in their mother’s car when it was hit by a Garda patrol car have been awarded a total of €26,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A HOUSE owner in the plush Embassy belt of the Dublin 4 area told a judge yesterday his home was being devalued by the way a neighbour was allowing her garden to grow wild.

Thirty one members of the Dublin County Amateur Boxing Board have been told by a judge to pay a €60,000 costs bill arising out of an unsuccessful legal foray against their parent body, the Irish Amateur Boxing Association.

ROBBIE FOX, the former “King of Clubs” who went bust at a time when he owned four high-class Dublin restaurants, says he is on the way up again.

A 25-YEAR-OLD physiotherapist who claimed she had tripped on a “lip” on the road in Foxrock, has been awarded €19,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A CATERING assistant who alleged she was assaulted, bullied and harassed at work has settled a damages claim of €38,000 for an undisclosed sum in the Circuit Civil court.

A judge, who today awarded a postman and former Balbriggan town councillor €16,000 damages for an injured big toe, said he was not satisfied An Post had provided him with protective shoes.

AN accusation that a schoolgirl had stolen a pair of shoes worth €4.99 cost a Penneys Dublin shop and its security company over €25,000.

George Hook, the broadcaster and television rugby pundit, has abandoned his claim for defamation of character against Tribune Newspapers Plc.

A BURNS victim who needs to shower several times a day because of his injuries was left by Dublin City Council to live in conditions unfit for human habitation, a judge said yesterday.

CORK accountant Finbarr Buckley and former K Club director of golf, Paul Crowe, have been ordered by a judge to pay the Ryder Cup resort almost €18,000 in service charge arrears.