Irish boxing champion, Ceire Smith, who claimed her career was damaged after she swallowed a sharp dental instrument during root-canal treatment, has settled her High Court action.

Irish boxing champion Ceire Smith is suing her dentist and the HSE claiming her boxing career has been damaged after she swallowed a sharp dental instrument during root canal treatment.

Irish Boxing champion Ceire Smith, who claims her boxing career has been damaged after she swallowed a sharp dental instrument during root canal treatment, has sued in the High Court.

A car testing centre inspector who was rear-ended while carrying out an inspection of a vehicle has been awarded €65,000 by the High Court for injuries he suffered in the accident.

A man who brought a shotgun to his nine-year-old daughter's bedroom when he sexually abused her and said he would shoot her mother if she told anyone what had happened, has been given a 11-and-a-half year sentence.

A man convicted of raping a woman he met after she became lost on a night out in Dublin city has been jailed for 10 years.

THE announcement yesterday that University College Cork is to embark on the biggest investment programme in its 182-year history must be welcomed. That €350m declaration reflects worthwhile ambition in many areas. It looks the future in the eye in the most positive way.

The choice of schools that parents have for their children has become a social and political hot potato, as pressure grows to remove requirements to be baptised to guarantee entry.

The word ‘apprentice’ prompts negative connotations in Irish minds, but our EU neighbours consider this trainee structure equal to academic qualifications.

A jury has convicted an Egyptian national of raping a woman he met after she became lost on a night out in Dublin city.

A jury has begun deliberations in the trial of a Laois man accused of raping a married mother who he met after she became lost on a night out in Dublin city, reports Declan Brennan.

Further exciting times lie ahead as apprenticeships are being expanded into a range of new areas, writes Michael Moriarty.

The family of Sonia Blount has urged social media users to be cautious and aware online, saying Ms Blount had paid for an error of judgement with her life.

A decision of the Garda commissioner that a garda be sacked if he did not resign for breaches of discipline, including an allegation of sexual impropriety, has been quashed by the High Court.

A decision of the Garda Commissioner that a garda should be sacked if he did not resign for breaches of discipline including an allegation of sexual impropriety has been quashed by the High Court.

A jury has failed to reach a verdict in the trial of a Dublin father-of-one, charged with murdering a 62-year-old by punching him repeatedly until he admitted to a sexual assault that he believed he had committed on another man.

A jury has heard closing speeches in the trial of a Dublin man, charged with murdering a 62-year-old by punching him until he admitted to a sexual assault that the accused had been told he had committed.

US firefighter Greg MacCurtain will run the Cork City Marathon with his severely ill daughter, writes Áilín Quinlan

Education Minister Richard Bruton’s plans to speed up the divestment of religious primary schools to new patrons face strong challenge as a multi-denominational schools group claims they prioritise the Catholic Church’s wishes over those of parents.

A consultant who lost a Ferrari in a deal for a dream McLaren sports car he never received, has been paid €55,000 by the dealer he sued, the High Court was told.

Billionaire businessman Denis O’Brien has lost an appeal against a 2011 High Court decision dismissing his claim that the Moriarty Tribunal had incorrectly restricted cross-examination of a key witness at its public hearings.

An application for the release of jailed Alan Hutch, whose father Eddie Hutch was among the victims of the gangland feud still raging in inner-city Dublin, has been adjourned pending a High Court decision tomorrow.

Alan Hutch, a son of gangland feud murder victim Eddie Hutch Sr, is among up to 20 prisoners seeking to benefit from the striking down of the laws governing the courts’ powers to activate suspended sentences.

A High Court judge has made formal declarations that laws allowing the courts activate suspended sentences are unconstitutional. At least 15 cases are to come before another judge today, with five of them initiated yesterday.

Acting Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald will not be opposed by Fianna Fáil when she brings emergency legislation through the Dáil to deal with last week’s suspended sentence High Court ruling.

Cases against two convicted criminals, who re-offended while under suspended sentences, have been dropped as a result of Tuesday’s High Court ruling.

Cases against two convicted criminals who re-offended while under suspended sentences have been dropped as a result of Tuesday's High Court ruling.

A landmark High Court ruling yesterday opens the way for certain prisoners to argue they are unlawfully detained — but many experts predict the numbers involved are quite small.

YESTERDAY’S High Court decision to declare the practice of allowing courts to activate suspended sentences is illegal will have a serious and possibly a limiting impact on the criminal justice system.

An actor who played the role of an Irish student in the Harry Potter film series must pay €260,000 in commission fees due to his former agent, the High Court has ruled.

An actor who appeared in the Harry Potter film series as a child has told the High Court an agent’s deal signed by his parents was “forced on us” without legal advice. 

An Englishman jailed for his role in the largest drugs seizure in the history of the State has had his 30-year jail term reduced on appeal to 17 and a half years.

Further to Michael Moriarty’s letter (Irish Examiner, January 1), re the imprisonment of Ibrahim Halawa, I was told that Ibrahim was offered release last summer and a flight home, but he refused this offer.

A man who has locked-in syndrome following an operation at Cork University Hospital was yesterday awarded a €10m lump sum payment in final settlement of his High Court action.

Community national schools should be managed by local boards — so says the head of the education and training boards which run them.

A heavily pregnant mother of four, who was the centre of a major search by gardaí on Friday, has been traced and “has happily had her baby”, the High Court was told yesterday.

The trial of former Anglo Irish Bank boss Seán FitzPatrick will now take place in May of next year after the High Court has dismissed his application to permanently prevent his trial before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court from proceeding.

A major search was on yesterday for a 30-year-old mother of four who is almost nine months’ pregnant and failed to turn up at a hospital to have the delivery of her baby induced.