The jury at David Drumm's conspiracy to defraud trial, which has been underway at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court since January, has been told that proceedings are likely to conclude in June.

The former head of group finance at Anglo Irish Bank said he was not aware that €7.2bn transactions with Irish Life and Permanent were “a straight exchange of cash with no underlying security” until after they had taken place.

Drumm also said he intended to go to “that fucking shower of clowns down in Dame Street,” to look for emergency funding for the bank, his trial has heard.

Ryanair is not trying to punish three pilots for speaking out, the airline's human resources boss had told the High Court.

A High Court judge will rule later on liability for what the State has agreed will be "substantial" costs, estimated at more than €1m, of a former prisoner's case over slopping out.

A former Kildare county footballer awarded €310,000 over a newspaper article describing him as the "king of the swingers" must be paid €50,000 within 36 days as a condition of the paper being allowed to appeal the award, the High Court has ruled.

A former Kildare Gaelic footballer has been awarded €310,000 damages after a High Court judge found he was “grossly defamed” in two Sunday World articles concerning swingers parties and the sex trade.

Detectives investigating the shooting of dissident republican Peter Butterly have denied that offers to drop a murder charge were made to an accused man who turned prosecution witness before he gave a statement about the case.

Defence lawyers at a dissident republican's murder trial are challenging the evidence of an accused man who turned prosecution witness.

State lawyers have said Jules Thomas' allegedly doctored garda statements would not have been "worth tuppence" to detectives investigating the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

The prosecution has described the circumstances surrounding an allegedly illegal loan for shares deal at Anglo Irish Bank as "topsy turvy".

The jury has heard former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick has been acquitted on six charges due to a lack of evidence.

The jury in the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives has been told they must disregard evidence of legal advice taken by the accused before the execution of an allegedly illegal share deal.

A court has heard former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick expressed regret that he had not been more involved in the Maple Ten loans.

A verdict is expected this evening in Denis O'Brien's defamation action against the Irish Daily Mail and columnist Paul Drury.

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has said the newly unveiled Legal Services Bill will bring the profession out of the 19th century and into the 21st century.

The jury in the case of a Polish man on trial for the “quiet and deadly” murder of a 20-year-old outside a Galway nightclub, will begin its second day of deliberations at the Central Criminal Court tomorrow.

Lawyers for two brothers on trial for murdering a farmer, have told the jury that it is unreasonable that they should be asked by the prosecution to consider that a man “over a stray heifer turned into a killer or became involved in a plot to kill or cause serious harm”.

One of two Co Laois brothers accused of murdering a farmer has told the jury in his trial that he was “purely defending” himself when he hit out at the dead man, after he had forced himself onto his land to get back a heifer.

The Assistant State Pathologist has today told the trial of two brothers accused of murdering a farmer, that the head injury he sustained during a dispute on their farmyard “substantially” contributed to his death.

Two brothers on trial for murdering a neighbouring farmer after his heifer strayed on to their land, have been described as “madmen” by the main witness in the trial.

A High Court judge has called on Anglo Irish Bank's bosses to consider with urgency whether the institution should be claiming legal privilege over certain documents seized from its offices.

The main witness in the trial of two brothers accused of murdering a Co Offaly farmer has told the Central Criminal Court today that they “turned on” the deceased after they “invited” him onto their land to get his heifer.

A young mother has told a Central Criminal Court jury that her former boyfriend broke into her home and raped her on two occasions last year.

A private bus company has settled their High Court proceedings against the Minister for Transport over a decision allowing Dublin Bus to change a route between Swords and Dublin Airport with the alleged effect of threatening the private company's business.

A mother-of-two convicted of hiring a hitman to kill her wealthy partner and his two sons will be sentenced next month, a court ruled today.

A 65-year-old man jailed for raping and sexually assaulting his niece for over a decade has had his 12-year sentence reduced by two years by the Court of Criminal Appeal.

A Cavan bachelor who developed "a distorted conception" of his then five to 15-years-old niece as his "life's partner" has been jailed for 12 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A nervous robber who handed himself in but then fell back into crime while on bail by transporting firearms to pay off a drug debt has been given an eight year sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A 19-year-old Dublin man who died from a fatal stabbing after hitting another man over the head with a bottle had a previous conviction for assault, a jury in the Central Criminal Court has heard.

A 19-year-old Dublin man who died after an argument outside a chip shop died from a single stab would to the chest according to the Chief State Pathologist.

A chartered accountant and son of the former Supreme Court judge Hugh O'Flaherty was given "substantial damges" after settlement was reached in the High Court today in a libel action he took against The Sunday Tribune newspaper.

A 42-year-old mother with a chronic alcohol problem today pleaded guilty to the murder of her young son at Greystones, Co Wicklow in June 2001.

Closing speeches concluded at the Central Criminal Court today in the trial of a 24-year-old Dublin man accused of murdering his 17-year-old girlfriend.