Attorney general Séamus Woulfe has suggested lawyers stop using “gobbledegook” language as one way to improve the court process for victims.

The IRFU’s updated concussion guide for the amateur game, issued last week, is an indication of how sports’ governing bodies are striving to keep up to speed with the medical profession’s developing knowledge of the condition.

While Ireland is renowned for its charitable nature, trustees of charities have come under “considerable pressure” here in the last 12 months and faced some “significant challenges”, according to a senior counsel.

Two professional soccer players suspended for 12 months following an investigation into match-fixing have secured temporary High Court injunctions over the FAI’s intention to introduce new evidence against them in their appeal.

Three gardaí were receiving such a vicious beating from associates of a Dublin criminal gang that a detective was forced to extricate them at gunpoint and arrest their assailants, the High Court has heard.

Senior barristers have demanded the Legal Aid Board immediately reverse a decision that would impact on family law cases, including the possibility of adding to already lengthy waiting lists.

A senior Tusla manager has accepted that the buck stops with him in relation to errors made in handling false allegations of child abuse against garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.

Latest: A senior Tusla manager has accepted that the buck stops with him in relation to errors made in handling false allegations of child abuse against garda whistleblower Sgt Maurice McCabe.

Dozens of damages claims brought by Irish hauliers against Europe’s biggest truck manufacturers who allegedly engaged in anti-competitive practices, have come before the High Court.

The operator of a passenger boat service to Skellig Michael has rejected claims by the Office of Public Works that he has “played down” or “trivialised” convictions he received relating to boat trips to the Unesco World Heritage site.

An assistant garda commissioner has claimed he was asked by Garda commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan during interviews for the position of deputy commisisoner about his views on “left-wing political extremism in Ireland” and on left- wing politicians.

The High Court has been asked to rule whether gardaí must provide a photograph of a car when they summons its driver to the District Court for speeding.

Restaurateurs Derry Clarke and Sallyanne Parker-Clarke have urged vulnerable young people to seek help following the inquest into the death of their teenage son.

Goal founder John O’Shea is to retire from his role as chief executive of the charity he founded more than 30 years ago.

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.

Goal founder John O’Shea has blocked a bid to suspend him, denying claims of bullying and alleging there was a “concerted action” to remove him from his post.

LEADING science students in a number of Cork secondary schools are setting their sights on international successes after a haul of gold, silver and bronze medals at a science fair.

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Seán McCarthaigh

ON another afternoon of uplifting stories, Gary Durkin touched the heart of many inside the RDS. Gary was one of the Connacht athletes in the Motor Activities event yesterday. Of everything going on in the RDS, Motor Activities is perhaps the most humbling.