A judge will decide on Monday whether a newspaper editor is responsible for a front-page story during the Ana Kriegel murder trial that led to his newspaper being barred from reporting the court proceedings.

A couple has taken a legal challenge over a coroner's refusal to await the report of an external review into the care of their 19-year-old daughter at Sligo University Hospital before resuming an inquest into her death.

A Louth man “hounded” by the media for repeatedly being caught with child pornography, according to his lawyers, has had his prison sentence cut on appeal.

Solicitor Gerald Kean has told a High Court jury he only learned that a man wounded during the Regency Hotel shooting was a client of his practice when officers of the Criminal Assets Bureau called to his office.

A €3m settlement, made without admission of liability, has been approved by the High Court for a permanently disabled young girl with cerebral palsy who alleged negligence in the circumstances of her delivery at the National Maternity Hospital.

Two men have died after separate incidents in the Mourne Mountains in the North today.

Ryanair has received an apology in the High Court over two Irish Examiner articles published more than three years ago.

A High Court judge is hearing arguments about the issues the Court of Justice of the EU should address in deciding the validity or otherwise of European Commission decisions approving EU-US data transfer channels used by Facebook and others.

A child who suffered catastrophic injuries at birth 10 years ago was awarded €4.5m against the HSE at the High Court in Cork yesterday.

A 6-year-old boy who is severely brain damaged has settled for €5.5m his action against the National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, over his care when he was brought to the hospital at eight days old and later diagnosed with meningitis.

So strong was the narrative surrounding Conor McGregor’s recent occupation of New York that one could be forgiven for pegging him as a pioneer.

A High Court judge will hear the action by the Data Protection Commissioner over the legality of existing data transfer channels between the EU and US next year.

A woman was allegedly put on chemotherapy treatment for cancer by a nurse despite her insistence she should be seen by a doctor first, the High Court heard.

A judge who sentenced a Meath man to two and a half years in prison for assaulting his girlfriend did not inquire into an allegation that the man locked the woman in a dog cage, his lawyers claimed at the Court of Appeal yesterday.

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South Tipperary General Hospital has apologised to a 12-year old boy who was catastrophically injured at birth.

A carpenter working on the construction of Limerick tunnel in 2008 had two fingers cut off in an industrial saw and yesterday he began a High Court action.

The State wants the High Court to strike out a decision it can be sued, along with the Christian Brothers, by three alleged sexual abuse victims, following a European court ruling in the landmark Louise O’Keeffe case.

Northern Ireland head coach Michael O’Neill paid tribute to the team for buying into his philosophy after they sealed their place at next summer’s European Championship last night.

Former businessman Breifne O’Brien has been granted an extension to appeal his prison sentence for inducing people to advance millions of euro to him to invest in bogus property deals.

A 7-year-old boy who was catastrophically injured during his birth at Cavan General Hospital has settled his High Court action with an interim payout of €2.1m.

Worldwide experts will draft an action plan to address cyberbullying over a two-day event in Ireland, thanks to the efforts of a US lawyer.

Scotland 1 Northern Ireland 0: A late header by substitute Christophe Berra gave Scotland a narrow but deserved 1-0 win over Northern Ireland in their Vauxhall International Challenge match at Hampden Park.

A forensic scientist told a murder trial jury yesterday that a mark on lino in a house where two women were killed 18 years ago was likely to have been made by a Caterpillar brand boot.

The President of the High Court has said “comfortable assumptions” that legal fees should continue as before, “without the slightest regard for privations experienced by citizens”, including other professionals, does not serve “the interests of justice”.

‘The Hitman’ is first on the hitlist for Ireland's new champ.

Australia's main national newspaper is facing a worldwide volley of criticism over an obituary calling the nation's most famous author "plain" and "overweight".

The Australian was slammed for referring to Colleen McCullough as 'fat and plain' in the opening paragraph of her obituary.

Australian author Colleen McCullough, whose 1977 best-selling novel The Thorn Birds became a smash hit television miniseries, has died at the age of 77.

A man purporting to have information about the murder of a Catholic postman more than 10 years ago was found dead at the bottom of a Belfast cliff, a coroner’s court has heard.

The maxim ‘you are what you eat’ takes on new meaning when we consider how our diet affects our emotions. Peta Bee looks at how scientific research supports this belief.

The High Court will decide next week if it will dismiss an interim examiner appointed to four main companies in the Cork-based O’Flynn Construction Group.

Examinership would undoubtedly be of benefit to the four insolvent Cork-based O’Flynn construction companies and for the benefit of their employees, the High Court has been told.

Ireland’s first purpose-built infant cremator has been installed at Newlands Cross Cemetery in Dublin.

Northern Ireland showed England they have little to fear from a Uruguay side lacking Luis Suarez as they battled to an honourable 1-0 defeat in Montevideo.

Men and women are being left on the sidelines as their partners indulge in marathons, triathlons and other forms of exercise.

Wayne McCullough wants to be the man to help John Joe Nevin make the transition from the amateur game to the pro ranks and believes he can make the Mullingar man a world champion.

One of the UK’s last remaining coal mines is to shut with the loss of up to 650 jobs.

Henry McCullough is one of Ireland’s great musicians. He was the only Irishman to play Woodstock, as a member of Joe Cocker’s Grease Band.

X Factor judge Louis Walsh said today he will “never get over” The Sun newspaper’s defamatory story that he sexually assaulted a man as he settled a lawsuit for £400,000.

More than 100 Irish and UK investors in a property in China have brought court proceedings over an alleged “secret profit” of €8m made by the promoters of the investment.

A 36-year-old man who has been repeatedly caught with child pornography has been given a four-year sentence with the final year suspended for an extended time on strict conditions.

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Michael Conlan made his exit from the Olympic tournament at the hands of a very talented newcomer, Robeisy Ramirez, who won last night’s quarter-final clash on a score of 20-10.