A correct application by the Oireachtas of its own rules concerning what is said in parliament would involve chilling “inappropriate” speech, a lawyer for businessman Denis O’Brien has told the Supreme Court.

Ireland won’t be part of the summer World Cup spectacle but there remains some burning issues for the game here in the year ahead.

Parties in a row between Deutsche Bank and a group of seven Galway firms, involving business debts just short of €700m, have appealed and cross-appealed High Court orders on the future of the companies.

Red Flag Consulting has disputed businessman Denis O’Brien’s claim he is entitled to know the identity of its client for a dossier of allegedly defamatory material about him, including describing him as “Ireland’s Berlusconi”.

Developer brothers Michael and John O’Flynn are suing the Data Protection Commissioner over an alleged delay in finalising their complaint claiming Nama has failed to provide them with all their personal data that it holds.

With the restructuring of the League of Ireland, it has suddenly become easier to fall out of the Premier Division and harder to get into it.

Big themes were explored yesterday in the High Court action Denis O’Brien is taking against the Oireachtas. 

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien will give evidence today in his High Court action alleging two TDs “clearly disregarded” the constitutional separation of powers between parliament and the courts when they made statements in the Dáil about his banking affairs.

In a League of Ireland sector beset by short-termism, the FAI are offering clubs up to €5,000 each to formulate a plan charting a five-year strategy.

The High Court will next month hear businessman Denis O’Brien’s application to force a PR consultancy to disclose certain information in advance of his defamation action against the firm.

Businessman Joseph Murphy Jr has brought a legal action against the Planning Tribunal and State claiming damages over alleged misfeasance in public office.

An application by businessman Denis O’Brien for court orders aimed at compelling a Dáil committee hand over to him minutes of two of its meetings last summer, plus other documents considered by the committee for those meetings, has been struck out at the High Court.

Businessman Denis O’Brien will next week ask the High Court to order the Red Flag consulting firm to identify its client for a dossier of material related to the businessman, most of which he claims is unfavourable to him.

The Red Flag consulting firm being sued by businessman Denis O’Brien has confirmed it had a client for a dossier of material relating to the businessman which he alleges is part of a conspiracy to damage him, the High Court has heard.

A dispute has erupted over whether the personal computers and devices, including mobile phones, of various executives and employees of the Red Flag Consulting firm must be submitted for “forensic imaging” by experts for businessman Denis O’Brien.

A consulting company has told the High Court that billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien has left “clouded in mystery” exactly how material from the firm’s computer files ended up on a USB stick placed in an envelope sent anonymously to Mr O’Brien.

Irish oil and gas exploration firm Petroceltic was yesterday granted an injunction preventing an extraordinary general meeting that had been called by its largest shareholder, Worldview, from going ahead.

A West of Ireland-based air service is challenging in the High Court the State’s decision to award the Aran Islands contract to a rival service.

Tycoon Denis O’Brien’s legal action over speeches made in the Dáil in relation to his banking affairs with Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) has been adjourned to October.

Fianna Fáil leader Micheal Martin yesterday suggested a strong defence should be prepared to challenge businessman Denis O’Brien’s legal action against the Houses of the Oireachtas.

The High Court will rule tomorrow on RTÉ’s application to fully discharge an injunction restraining publication of certain information relating to the banking relationship between Denis O’Brien and State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (formerly Anglo Irish Bank).

A High Court Judge stated it was never his intention that an injunction preventing RTÉ from reporting on businessman Denis O’Brien’s personal finances would restrict media outlets from fairly reporting on comments made in the Dail.

Denis O’Brien can never be a private person because he is a “media baron” possessing the power wealth can buy, a barrister for RTÉ has said in the High Court.

Businessman Denis O’Brien claims he will suffer irreparable harm to the confidence that national and international banks have in him if RTÉ is allowed broadcast a report about his private banking affairs.

Businessman Denis O’Brien is seeking a High Court injunction against RTÉ preventing what he says is a planned broadcast report about certain details in relation to his private banking affairs.

Sports management company Horizon seeks application for further inspection of mobile phones

The O’Flynn construction group has set out "a good arguable case" entitling it to pursue global private equity fund Blackstone over an alleged conspiracy to take over key companies in the Cork-based group, the Commercial Court ruled.

Cork brothers Michael and John O’Flynn have told the High Court they would not be maintaining allegations of wrongdoing against four receivers appointed to their companies by Blackstone subsidiary Carbon Finance.

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.

Developers Michael and John O’Flynn will continue their legal battle in the High Court today against what they call an “improper” attempt by US investment giant Blackstone to take over the O’Flynn Construction Group.

Counsel for O’Flynn Construction companies disputed claims by the Blackstone-owned company, Carbon, in its petition to appoint an examiner, that it had not received co-operation from the O’Flynns and had no access to the necessary financial information.

Four key companies in the Cork-based O’Flynn construction group have claimed a petition for appointment of an interim examiner to them is part of an improper attempt to take over the O’Flynn group.

Nama is pursuing businessman Garrett Kelleher for €46.8m summary judgment orders arising mostly from a limited guarantee relating to substantial loans made by the former Anglo Irish Bank for developments in Ireland, the US and Belgium.

Former billionaire Tony O’Reilly has had a judgment for €22.6m entered against him at the Commercial Court.

One-time billionaire businessman Tony O’Reilly has had a judgment for €22.6m entered against him at the Commercial Court.