A solicitor who formerly acted for a student in proceedings over an internet video clip falsely portraying him as a taxi fare evader in Dublin when he was in Japan, is seeking €1.9m in legal costs from him and his parents, the High Court has heard.

A young wife was yesterday left devastated after a surgeon who clipped both of her fallopian tubes was found not guilty of poor professional performance at a fitness to practice inquiry at the Medical Council in Dublin.

An expert in reproductive medicine has described the judgement call a doctor under review faced when conducting the surgery in question. One must “hope you make the right decision”, the fitness-to-practise inquiry at the Medical Council heard yesterday.

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The decision by a surgeon to ‘clip’ a woman’s fallopian tube without her consent has been described as “quite extraordinary” by a medical expert.

A woman has described waking up from an operation to find both her fallopian tubes had been “clipped” without her consent.

Judge says court needs further information on ‘rather large’ legal bill

An important dispute over whether internet hosting sites have immunity from defamation litigation is to be thrashed out before the Supreme Court.

A decision that a defamatory YouTube video be permanently removed from the internet should only be arrived at after a full trial of the matter, a High Court judge was told yesterday.

Arrangements must be made within the next month to permanently remove an internet video clip falsely accusing a student of taxi fare evasion, a High Court judge ruled yesterday.

IT must have seemed like a good idea at the time, when a video using material from a dashboard camera in a taxi was uploaded to Facebook and YouTube showing a guy jumping out of his car without paying his fare.

The High Court has refused an application made by a DCU student to place an injunction to stop six national newspapers from identifying him.

A 22-year-old is back in the High Court today in a bid to stop six national newspapers from naming him over a video he claims defames him.

A SENIOR medic agreed the results of the care given by former GP Paschal Carmody to nine terminally ill cancer patients were “exceptional”.

THEIR name bears that of a town in Munster, and they are referred to as a Tipperary school; yet their premises is located over the border in Offaly and they play their rugby in Leinster.

Offaly 1-19 Limerick 1-13

I THINK it is a great pity that Limerick’s young guns, after a spirited fight, did not manage to draw against Offaly in their League clash in Tullamore on Sunday.

Offaly 2-17 Limerick 3-13

SPIRITED performances by two young teams in this entertaining Waterford Crystal hurling tournament quarter-final in Kilmallock yesterday, the students eventually out-pointing a plucky Limerick side by three points, thus qualifying to meet UL on Sunday next.

UCC 0-19 Limerick 2-9

OUR electrical cars will charge overnight while our ‘smart’ dishwashers will be set to turn on when electricity demand dips in the early hours of the morning — such is the vision being outlined by engineers who believe a ‘smart’ electricity system must be part of our future.

THERE is no substitute for experience and Cork had it in abundance for this Munster one-sided IHC semi-final against Clare in Thurles yesterday.

Cork 2-18, Tipperary 0-8