Limerick criminal Wayne Dundon has started High Court proceedings challenging his detention in a segregated unit at Cloverhill prison.

The Court of Criminal appeal has dismissed the DPP's bid to increase the 10- year prison sentence imposed on a psychiatric patient who admitted stabbing two health workers in a 'frenzied' attack at a hospital in Limerick.

A 67-year-old man wanted in the UK on charges of indecently assaulting a young girl more than 25 years ago has appeared before the High Court following his arrest by gardaí today.

A judge has asked immigration authorities to do all in their power to ensure a 20-year-old mother receives daily visits in Mountjoy Prison over Christmas from her two-year-old child.

IT would have been wonderful this morning of all mornings to step away from the anger that has defined the year coming to an snowy end, but yesterday’s outrageous and autocratic behaviour by our wretched Government makes that impossible.

THE taxpayer is going to be the last person to know the intentions of Government under its sweeping new bank rescue laws.

The taxpayer is going to be the last person to know the intentions of Government under its sweeping new bank rescue laws.

A Tipperary man has failed in an attempt to overturn his conviction for the kidnap and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in a remote woodland 10 years ago.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgement in the case of a psychiatric patient jailed for 10 years for repeatedly stabbing a doctor.

LEGAL proceedings have begun in the High Court in which Investor First Limited is seeking €346,275 in respect of professional services allegedly provided in sourcing and securing a building in Cork suitable for use as a private hospital which the defendant Sheehan Medical Limited could purchase or lease.

The HSE has sincerely apologised for its various failings in its treatment of a 44-year-old father of three who died after severe brain injuries he sustained following surgery he underwent at a Co Kerry hospital on a broken wrist.

The High Court is to send a letter asking its counterpart in the North for recognition of the court protection granted to Aer Arann last week.

The High Court has this evening appointed an interim examiner to house building firm McInerney Homes and several realted companies after being informed that an independent accountant's report revealed that firms have a reasonable prospect of survival.

The High Court has tonight appointed an interim examiner to Aer Arann, which employs more than 300 people after being informed that the airline has a reasonable prospect of survival as a going concern.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved its decision in an appeal brought by Eamonn Cooke against his conviction and 10-year jail sentence for sexually assaulting young girls around 30 years ago.

A Cork man who orally raped a foreign national has been jailed for 13 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A 39-YEAR-OLD woman who fainted and fell after she had stand-up tanning sunbed treatment in a Chartbusterts video/sunbed outlet resulting in a scar to the centre of her forehead secured €20,000 in damages in the High Court yesterday.

An application brought by sex offender Eamonn Cooke to be furnished with a yet-to-be-published book written by a girl whom he was convicted of sexually assaulting as part of his appeal against his conviction and 10-year jail sentence he received has been struck out at the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A 33-YEAR-OLD woman, sexually assaulted by her landlord because she was “too sexy”, secured €175,000 in damages in the High Court against the man in what the judge described as a particularly “odious assault”.

The trial of a west Dublin man charged with raping a Latvian woman while she was on her way to work has collapsed because the complainant has returned to her own country.

The Court of Criminal appeal has halved the seven-year prison sentence imposed on a South African 'drug mule' and mother of three who was caught with almost €80,000 worth of cannabis in her suitcase at Dublin Airport.

A NAVAL officer who claimed he fell down the stairs of a ship because the handrails were wet has settled his civil action outside the High Court in Cork.

A 72-YEAR-OLD Co Cork man has rowed the length of the River Shannon to raise funds for an Indian boy born without legs or arms.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the life sentence imposed on a serial rapist for a sexual assault on a young woman while she walked to a friend's house to one of 13 years in prison.

An appeal brought by Eamonn Cooke, the founder of an illegal Radio Dublin pirate station, against his conviction and 10-year jail sentence for sexually assaulting young girls some 30 years ago has been adjourned by the Court of Criminal Appeal to later this year.

AFTER a strong plea by a High Court judge to both sides “to think long and hard” about their dispute over the ownership of Gorse Hill, the Pat Kenny land row is to go to mediation, but the case could be back in court as early as Tuesday if such a move fails.

A DISPUTE over ownership of a strip of land between the home of Pat Kenny and his neighbour erupted into physical confrontation shortly after the broadcaster voiced fears that there might be attempts to develop properties in what he called “our enclave” in Dalkey, Dublin, it was claimed in the High Court yesterday.

'Late Late Show' host Pat Kenny effectively stole his neighbour’s land after years of failed attempts to buy it, Dublin’s High Court heard today.

Late Late Show host Pat Kenny is expected to begin a lengthy and potentially costly legal battle with his neighbour today as he attempts to secure squatter’s rights over a valuable piece of cliff-top land.

Broadcaster Pat Kenny will face a lengthy and potentially costly legal battle over his attempt to claim squatter’s rights over a piece of cliff-top land, a High Court judge ruled today.

The group representing the interest of Irish patients has warned that the possibility of another Michael Neary type scandal occurring in the health care system remains.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has dismissed an appeal against the three year jail sentence imposed on a Lithuanian man who struck a pedestrian, who had both legs amputated as a result of the injuries he sustained, while driving a van in a dangerous manner.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in appeal brought by a serial rapist against the life sentence he received for sexually attacked a woman just five months after his release from prison for a previous assault.

A HIGH COURT judge will give her decision tomorrow on an application by two Payzone executives restraining the company from treating them as being dismissed.

An Eritrean national who was described as "someone who is quiet dangerous" is making it impossible for a judge to sentence him on rape charges in the Central Criminal Court because he is either violent, drunk or in a state of undress.

An Eritrean national facing sentence for rape had to be carried screaming and kicking by prison officers across the Round Hall of the Four Courts to a cell after he was deemed too dangerous to be kept in court.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has set aside the conviction and ordered the re-trial of a South African man jailed for the murder of his Irish born wife at their home in Co Meath shortly before Christmas 2004.

A Cork man who raped a teenage girl after he and his brother spent €300 on cocaine and alcohol has been jailed for four years by Ms Justice Maureen Clark at the Central Criminal Court.

TWO women abused by notorious paedophile and pirate radio station boss, Eamonn Cooke, pleaded last night for greater protection for victims facing the nightmare of court trials.

The founder of the illegal Radio Dublin pirate station has been jailed for 10 years for sexually assaulting young girls at his home some 30 years ago.

A Cork man has been convicted by a jury at the Central Criminal Court of raping a then 16-year-old girl in a countryside area outside the city.

The jury in the trial of a Cork man accused of raping a 16-year-old girl has been sent to a hotel overnight having failed to reach a verdict.

A Cork man accused of rape has claimed in evidence that he had consensual sex with the teenage complainant and agreed he at first told a lie to gardaí about where he was on the night of the alleged crime.