A suspended solicitor has lodged €395,000 to the client account of his former firm following a number of complaints about him by clients, the High Court has heard.

A solicitor has been given time by the High Court to provide a full explanation for his deduction of €101,000 fees from a €396,000 estate held for a widowed client and her three children.

A witness has given evidence at an inquest into the death of a man how the deceased told him to call an ambulance before jumping to his death in the River Shannon.