A daughter of an elderly woman with Alzheimer's cannot represent her mother's estate in a legal dispute over €115,000 arrears of nursing home fees under the Fair Deal scheme due to conflict of interest concerns, the president of the High Court has ruled.

A vulnerable young woman at the centre of a "horror story" of alleged sexual abuse by more than 12 males before she was taken into care aged 10 has told the president of the High Court she will need supports into the future.

Mr Justice Peter Kelly said he hoped the young man’s progress will “give hope” to all those dealing with anorexia, especially serious anorexia.

The president of the High Court has authorised the taking of legal action against State agencies over their alleged “appalling” failures over years to protect a child from alleged sexual abuse by more than 12 males.

An elderly woman lived in “abject squalor” in her home for almost two years without light, heat and adequate nutrition when €164,000 was lodged in court for her, the High Court has heard.

The president of the High Court has strongly criticised a delay over several months in registering an enduring power of attorney concerning an elderly woman with dementia.

The girl’s court-appointed guardian has raised serious concerns about why the girl and her siblings were not taken into care earlier as social work services were familiar with the family before the girl was born.

A woman who was sexually abused and raped by her brother-in-law has asked how the abuse continued when he was “supposedly fixed” after a priest directed him to get counselling.

A High Court judge has ordered the arrest of an extremely vulnerable woman so she can undergo urgent detoxification and other treatment amid fears, unless that is done, she is likely to be “dead in days”.

The HSE has apologised “unreservedly”, and has agreed to pay €440,000, to a severely intellectually disabled “voiceless” elderly woman resident of Áras Attracta.

A teenage girl with severe anorexia who is still being tube-fed 10 months after being moved to a specialist eating disorder unit in the UK has written directly to the President of the High Court appealing to be let return home to Ireland for a visit.

A man said to have a history of violent behaviour who is having a baby with an intellectually disabled woman has been restrained by High Court orders from having any further interaction with her.

A judge has made orders permitting the detention in hospital and tube feeding of a teenage girl with the most severe form of anorexia nervosa, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

Niamh O’Dea’s super-show steered Clare into a first TG4 All-Ireland ladies intermediate football final since 2009.

Maria Delahunty’s free, with 33 seconds left on the clock, salvaged a draw for Waterford in a terrific Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 3 final against Tipperary in Clane this afternoon.

Tipperary Ladies Gaelic Football board officials have insisted the controversy that has seen five players dropped and 14 more absent themselves from the county’s intermediate squad is "closed."

The prospect of a resolution in the Tipperary ladies football dispute appears increasingly remote after chairman Tommie Campbell asked players dropped by team manager John Leahy to apologise to the county board.

Tipperary manager John Leahy is planning for the Munster and All-Ireland Intermediate Ladies Football championships without 19 players.

Tipperary ladies football board officials have backed John Leahy after the manager dropped five leading players from his county squad.

Tipperary hurling hero John Leahy has created a massive storm by axing five leading players from the county’s ladies football panel.

TG4 LADIES IFC FINAL:

Cavan 1-14 Tipperary 1-12

KERRY and Tipperary recorded impressive victories in round One of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Championship qualifiers yesterday before the winners were handed tough round-two matches.

A COUPLE granted permission for an extension to their home have been told they could lose their house to make way for a new road.