A High Court judge has said a deportation order for a Nigerian man who seems to be the primary carer of his two biological children and a "father figure" to his partner's Irish citizen son, gave "cause for offence" to fathers in such positions.

The man was married to another woman at the time of his third 'marriage' in Pakistan in 2016.

The Court of Appeal has upheld a judge’s decision to grant injunctions allowing two Leaving Cert students facing expulsion for videoing and posting on social media a classmate snorting some white powder during a class, to return to school.

The High Court has suspended for three months its declaration of unconstitutionality of a law preventing the recognition, for family reunification purposes, of marriages of refugees which took place after they sought protection here.

An appeal has been initiated over a controversial High Court decision, with far-reaching implications, that applicants for citizenship must have "unbroken" residence here for a year prior to their application.

A High Court judge, in a significant ruling, has found the Minister for Justice wrongly applied regulations relating to the free movement of persons in the EU when refusing a man's application for a residence card.

Independent midwife Philomena Canning was devastated that she was going to die before getting to tell the full story of her battle with the HSE, writes Michael Clifford.

The Government has been asked to pause naturalisation applications and to quickly draft legislation after a court ruling that applicants must have unbroken residency here for a year.

“What does this ruling mean for them?"

A High Court judge has adjourned for a week the making of further orders arising from his significant and controversial decision that applicants for citizenship must have "unbroken" residence here for a year before they apply.

The shock decision means that people can't leave the country for even one day - before now, six weeks discretion was used in certain circumstances.

A shock High Court ruling that anyone applying for citizenship must not leave the country at all in the year before their application could impact thousands of people.

A High Court judge, in a significant decision, has ruled the "continuous residence" requirement in citizenship applications means an applicant for naturalisation must have "unbroken" residence in the State for an entire year immediately before the date of their application.

A High Court judge has declared unconstitutional a law preventing the recognition, for family reunification purposes, of marriages of refugees which took place after they sought protection here.

A High Court judge has overturned a refusal by the Minister for Justice of citizenship to a Nigerian woman on the basis of the Minister's view she is not "of good character".

The Minister for Justice brought a "strikingly middle-income and perhaps even middle-aged dimension" to a decision to refuse a man a residence card on the basis he was not in a "durable relationship", a High Court judge has said.

A Sudanese man who twice overstayed his visa to Ireland has failed in a High Court challenge to a refusal to allow him remain here.

A man suing a priest and a religious order over alleged sexual abuse when he was a child is entitled to information about others who made similar allegations, the High Court has ruled.

A High Court judge has upheld the Minister for Justice's refusal to allow a married Pakistani couple live here on grounds their application involved an abuse of the wife's free movement rights as an EU citizen.

A Junior Certificate student suspended from school after his mother expressed concern about him sourcing cannabis online can return to his studies with immediate effect, the High Court ruled.

A waste company operator behind the illegal dumping of thousands of tonnes of waste ran two cash accounts and had greater involvements in a pub and horses than he admitted to, the High Court has heard.

A Romanian man who lived here for three and appeal over being refused disability allowance here.

Both teams were already assured of progress to the Harty Cup quarter-finals thanks to comprehensive beatings of Castletroy College earlier on, but it was Christians who sent out the loudest message of intent at Bansha as they powered their way to another heavy victory.

The ESB has no liability for extensive flood damage to buildings on the campus of University College Cork after floods affected large parts of Cork city in late 2009, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

The High Court's finding that buildings and sites on and around Dublin's Moore Street are a 1916 Rising battlfield site comprising a national monument was "strongly supported" by evidence, including from historians and two former directors of the National Musuem, the Court of Appeal has been told.

Three legal challenges against plans for a new €320m runway at Dublin Airport have been thrown out by the High Court.

Following the judgments the cases were adjourned for a week to allow all the parties consider the court's decisions.

A Limerick man described by a judge as "a veteran of the criminal justice system", has failed in his latest legal challenge to his jailing for two months for drunk and dangerous driving.

A High Court judge has imposed litigation restrictions on a woman and her non-professional advisor over their involvement in multiple actions that amounted to "an abuse of process upon an abuse of process" concerning a Midlands farm.

Blind love may leave you homeless was the underlying warning behind a judge’s remarks concerning ill-advised romantic engagements in business affairs.

A bid to overturn An Bord Pleanála’s planning permission to EirGrid for the construction of a 138km-long, north-south interconnector were thrown out in the High Court yesterday by Mr Justice Max Barrett.

Update: Responding to a court decision to reject a challenge to a McDonald’s drive through fast-food restaurant being opened near a school in Greystones, the advocacy group Irish Heart have called for new legislation to protect children’s health by introducing no fry zones.

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission cannot examine all 100,000 emails of a senior executive of cement giant CRH copied by it following a “dawn raid” as part of an investigation into alleged anti-competitive practices, the Supreme Court has ruled.

A boatman who brings visitors to Skellig Michael has brought a High Court action over the Minister for Transport's decision to limit the season in which passengers can be landed at the UNESCO world heritage site.

A woman “struggling to get by” after her husband “abandoned” her and their children fears she will lose her family home if a bank gets a €65,000 judgment against her, a High Court judge has said.

A High Court judge has urged a father and son being pursued over “vast” sums of more than €5.2m in estimated alleged unpaid taxes to “engage sensibly” with the Revenue Commissioners.

Dozens of damages claims brought by Irish hauliers against Europe’s biggest truck manufacturers who allegedly engaged in anti-competitive practices, have come before the High Court.

The justice minister must reconsider retired High Court judge Barry White’s application to resume practising as a criminal barrister, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.

Retired judge Barry White can return to practise as a barrister, the High Court has found.

A retired High Court judge has been allowed to return to work as a barrister.