Companies controlled by brothers Michael and Richard Larkin have secured a temporary High Court injunction restraining Ulster Bank Ireland transferring their loans to any third party.

Supermarket giant Aldi has gone to court alleging a Dunnes Stores ad campaign gives a “completely misleading impression” that various Dunnes products are cheaper than Aldi equivalents.

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.

The High Court has adjourned until early next year an application to jail the owner of a timber homes and garden products firm in Co Wicklow for his failure to comply with an order to demolish the company's factory.