Former Dairygold chief executive Jerry Henchy told the High Court he was in line for an annual bonus each year which was potentially half his six-figure salary.

Former Dairygold chief executive Jerry Henchy has told the High Court he did not have a relationship of “total trust” at all times with the society’s chairman, Vincent Buckley, after Mr Buckley was elected to that position in 2008.

The employment of former Dairygold CEO Jerry Henchy was wrongfully terminated for “spurious” reasons unrelated to how he did his job, after an orchestrated campaign involving Dairygold chairman Vincent Buckley and others, it has been claimed.

The HSE has apologised to a 57-year-old woman whose breast cancer was misdiagnosed three times and who later had to undergo a mastectomy after an invasive cancer was finally discovered.

High Court proceedings brought by Goal founder and CEO John O'Shea aimed at restraining the board of Goal from taking any steps to suspend or remove him from his position have been resolved.

The High Court has fixed next Thursday as the hearing date of an application by Goal CEO John O'Shea for an interlocutory injunction restraining the board of Goal from taking any steps to suspend or remove him from his position.

ALLIED Irish Bank has insisted it fired a self-declared whistle-blower for accessing the private bank accounts of his colleagues without authorisation.

A FORMER AIB staff officer agreed under cross- examination in the High Court yesterday that the first time she told the bank she had a health problem was in May 2000 when she ceased working for it.

TÁNAISTE Michael McDowell gave his full support to doubling the salaries of lawyers working for the Planning Tribunal while he served as Attorney General in 1999, it has emerged.

THE crisis surrounding activity by Shell in north Mayo deepened yesterday when five men were returned to prison over their continued objections to the work.

Five protesters against gas pipelines being built by Shell in the west of Ireland were returned to jail today after an attempted peace deal failed.

Five men jailed for their opposition to a Shell gas pipeline in Mayo cannot rely on the quashing of the injunction against them to secure their release, a court heard today.

ONE of the country’s leading private maternity hospitals did not have the surgical equipment needed to remove a dead foetus from a patient’s womb, the High Court has heard.

The builders Brennan and McGowan have been given one last chance by the Flood Tribunal to produce documents being sought by the inquiry.

Counsel for the Flood Tribunal, Patrick Hanratty, has accused the builder Tom Brennan of "stone-walling" the tribunal.

The building developer, Tom Brennan has failed to provide the requested documents at the Flood Tribunal today.

Prominent builder Tom Brennan could face High Court action later today if he fails to present certain documents to the planning and payments tribunal.

Builder Tom Brennan has appeared before the Flood Tribunal today to answer allegations regarding a payment made to the former Minister, Ray Burke.

At the Flood Tribunal, builder Tom Brennan has been reminded for the third time in two days about the implications of telling lies.

One of the country's leading builders is due before the Flood Tribunal today to answer further questions about alleged payments to former Justice Minister Ray Burke.

The Flood Tribunal has been told that former Minister Ray Burke rang the Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners in 1989 to query a tax bill on behalf of builders Brennan and McGowan.