Ms Justice Niamh Hyland did not accept Brandon Crosbie's constitutional right to information in order to access justice had been affected by a refusal of Mountjoy Prison to give out information over the phone to his solicitor Tony Collier.

Under HAP, a total of €575 per month was paid to their US-based landlord, with the couple contributing €240 per month to it.

Businessman Jim Kennedy and his company Jackson Way Properties (JWP) have lost a High Court challenge to a refusal to provide information about land in Carrickmines, south Dublin, which has been the subject of years of litigation.

Eileen O'Connor (38) was principal of Gaelscoil Mhuscraí in Blarney, Co Cork, when she made the applications for capitation grants to which the school was not entitled.

A landmark High Court challenge against the State over new regulations that allow for the industrial extraction of peat from bogs has opened before the High Court.

The Judge also said he agreed with counsel for RTE Ms Niamh Hyland that the application was brought by Ben Gilroy in an attempt to enhance his electoral prospects in the May 24 ballot.

Two candidates in this month's European Parliament elections are seeking High Court orders allowing them to participate in an RTE television live debate.

Former INM CEO Gavin O'Reilly is concerned his personal data may have been accessed during an alleged data breach at the company in 2014, the High Court has heard.

The way has been cleared for a woman who suffered institutional abuse to make a late claim for redress following the Supreme Court’s finding in favour of her challenge.

Judgment has been reserved in a Supreme Court case where a woman, who suffered institutional abuse while in state care as a child, was refused in her application for redress because she was too late.

A partnership set up to provide local rural, social and economic programmes in Co Meath has brought a High Court challenge aimed at quashing findings that €535,173 it made in payments to various projects were irregular and the projects were ineligible for funding.

Funds raised for the disability charity, Rehab, have dropped by around €600,000 this year after a string of controversies surrounding how money was spent at the agency.

Staff at the disability charity Rehab said they are disappointed that a "clean slate wasn’t offered" after a shake up of the board which saw all but three of its 16 members replaced.

The Supreme Court has reserved judgment on a key issue in an appeal by Nama against a decision that it is a public body subject to public access requests for environmental information.

Nama learned that developer Bernard McNamara had filed for bankruptcy in the UK on the same day the agency lodged notice of its intention to ask the Commercial Court to fast-track proceedings for €27.5m summary judgment orders against him, it emerged yesterday.

The taxpayer is going to be the last person to know the intentions of Government under its sweeping new bank rescue laws.