A Traveller rights activist and two of her friends have failed in their claim of discrimination after one of them was refused entry to a Dublin pub.

A judge has hit out at the lack of medical evidence in doctors’ reports for personal injury cases and said it has “got out of hand”.

A seven year-old girl has been awarded €2,500 after she sustained minor bruising in a Nando’s restaurant in Blanchardstown.

An eight-year-old boy has been awarded €12,000 for psychological injuries and emotional upset suffered as a result of a car accident in Dublin when he was a toddler.

A five-year-old boy has been awarded €5,000 after he was left with a scar on his head from being hit by a metal trolley in a creche in the Dundrum Shopping Centre.

A judge has hit out at certain people who, he says, make personal injury claims and have the idea they can expect others to pay after a bad experience.

A convicted thief who hid his criminal record from a motor insurance company has had an €11,000 claim for compensation dismissed after a judge held he committed a “sin of omission”.

A test case has been brought to ensure pubs in Dublin will be granted late bar extensions to serve alcohol after normal closing times on Good Friday.

A group of residents have failed in their bid to halt the two-day Samhain music festival in Dublin featuring Britpop icon Liam Gallagher.

An events promoter has avoided the threat of being jailed over a €250,000 debt to comedian Mario Rosenstock after being declared bankrupt.

The 35-year-old father of one was shot dead last year - in a killing that is believed to be linked to the Hutch-Kinahan feud.

A judge has warned a “failed promoter” he could be sent to jail if he does not get a “normal” job to pay back a debt of about €250,000 to comedian Mario Rosenstock.

An innocent mother-of-three has been awarded almost €5,000 after Gardaí smashed in her doorway during a raid which proved fruitless.

Disgraced former politician Ivor Callely has dodged another stint in jail after finally settling a long-running debt.

After failing to turn up for a court action to have him jailed, former politician Ivor Callely has handed himself in, more than week after judge issued a warrant for his arrest.

A lawyer for an accountancy firm which sought to jail former politician Ivor Callely over an unpaid debt has rejected a statement that the case had been already settled by the time a court issued an arrest warrant.

A judge has ordered the arrest of former TD Ivor Callely, who failed to turn up to court to face an action to have him jailed for non-payment of a debt.

A senior Garda refused to grant an Anti-Austerity Alliance councillor a permit for house-to-house and street collections in Dublin because she believed the money would be used for illegal acts, a court has heard.

A Dublin woman, who tore clumps of hair from a shop worker’s head during a vicious attack, has been given a three-month suspended sentence.

The owner of a Staffordshire bull terrier that bit a 14-year-old girl has been fined €200 at Tallaght Court and must pay €1,100 costs.

Michael Coghlan of Sherry FitzGerald Coghlan is expecting a lot of interest in this four-bedroom detached house because there is such a shortage of available property at this level in the area. 

The parents of a boy with educational difficulties have been warned by a judge that they are making things worse by keeping him out of school.

Three brothers have been remanded in custody after they were charged with attacking a 72-year-old woman as she made her way home from Saturday evening mass.

A father and daughter appeared in court yesterday charged with resisting arrest and criminal damage during a protest at the Israeli embassy in Dublin.

Republic of Ireland and Celtic striker Anthony Stokes, who is charged with attacking and injuring a man in a Dublin nightclub, is to be served with a book of evidence in two weeks.

Model and actor Vivienne Connolly was spared a fine and the possibility of four penalty points on her licence when she appeared in court for speeding.

A then 13-year-old boy, who beat a Pakistani national with a metal pole during an unprovoked gang attack in Dublin, has been remanded on bail pending sentence.

A Killarney bar and guesthouse that made millions back in the boom (and which always had a good turnover) when sold and re-sold is now on offer for the price of a dormer home.

This stylish home in Aghadoe, outside Killarney, is finished to a five-star standard with space aplenty, sympathetic landscaping — and a National Park on the doorstep, writes Tommy Barker.

With 11 sold and just four left, this Killarney development is a winner. Tommy Barker reports

CROSSHAVEN, CO CORK €375,000

Tommy Barker rounds up some of the movers and shakers in an otherwise depressed year on the domestic property front

THIS is some house — an acre site with spectacular views over Lough Leane and a location in one of the better areas of Killarney.

THERE’S a subtle connection between Killarney and the Scottish Highlands – both became big tourist destinations in the 19th century and both entertained Queen Victoria.

IT was priced at €18,000 per acre initially, but in a market where you ask more to get less, the agent did very well to reach €15,000 per acre for a farm at Beaufort, Killarney.

SHANNON have lost their appeal against the €25,000 fine imposed on them by the IRFU disciplinary committee arising out of incidents involving senior members of the club and referee George Clancy at the conclusion of last month’s AIB League game against Cork Constitution at Coonagh.

WEST CORK holiday homes for €100,000 each? What’s the catch? Well, you have to buy 14 of them, that’s about it.

A SURGE of interest in a 28-acre Co Kerry offering has hit Killarney auctioneer Michael Coghlan of the Sherry FitzGerald Sherry FitzGerald alliance — who reckons that half the world now want a lifestyle change and a move to the country.

BETTER than at any time in its 170 or so years is the Kerry holding Knockaseed House.

HIGH noon came yesterday when Dublin’s landmark Burlington Hotel closed its doors.