The owner of one of the country’s best-known nightclubs has been told by a judge to face the music or go to jail.

The Catholic Church has come under fire on several fronts for not supporting priests against whom false allegations of abuse are made.

A country curate yesterday recalled how the support of parishioners and friends helped him get through dark and lonely days when false allegations of abuse made his life hell.

A woman has apologised in the High Court to a priest she falsely accused of abusing her.

The High Court has ordered the winding up of Ely Property Group Ltd, the firm founded by businessman and developer Philip Marley.

Nama is seeking orders requiring former executive Enda Farrell and his wife to pay the legal costs of proceedings brought over his alleged “extensive” misappropriation of highly confidential data from the agency.

A High Court judge has refused to grant the 18th Baron of Inchiquin, Conor O’Brien, a mandatory order for the recovery of his 37 ancestral portraits that hang in Dromoland Castle Hotel.

By Ray Managh

A High Court judge has reserved judgment on an application by Lord Inchiquin for the recovery of 37 ancestral portraits, including one of Brian Boru.

The 18th Baron Inchiquin turned up at Dromoland Castle Hotel in the early hours of the morning with a Northern Ireland removals company in a bid to unlawfully take family portraits off the walls, the High Court has been told.

Lord Inchiquin is to ask the High Court today to direct the return to him of 37 ancestral portraits that have hung in Dromoland Castle for decades before and since it became a hotel.

The Courts Service has revealed RTE’s bill for defamed priest Fr Kevin Reynolds' legal team was more than €150,000.

A HEAVY price has been paid by Aoife Kavanagh.

The RTÉ board is expected to reject criticism by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland that it failed to waive legal privilege for an inquiry into the Prime Time Investigates programme at a special meeting with Pat Rabbitte, the communications minister, today.

Heads could roll as Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte confronts the board of the RTÉ Authority tomorrow over the Prime Time Investigates programme Mission To Prey.

The solicitor for Fr Kevin Reynolds has said the chairman of RTE is ultimately responsible for the errors in the 'Mission to Prey' programme which libelled the priest.

Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte has criticised RTÉ's 'Mission to Prey' programme today, calling it a "shoddy, unprofessional, cavalier, damaging piece of work".

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) has expressed its "dismay and disappointment" that information regarding the ongoing investigation into RTÉ has entered the public domain.

The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has admitted that legislation did not prevent it from interviewing Fr Kevin Reynolds as part of its inquiry into the Prime Time Investigates programme which defamed the Galway priest.

A priest defamed by RTÉ was not interviewed by the broadcasting watchdog during its investigation, it has emerged.

A solicitor for defamed priest Fr Kevin Reynolds has dismissed a move by RTÉ to scrap the 'Prime Time Investigates' series as "probably cosmetic".

Justice Minister Alan Shatter has been criticised for comments he made following the broadcast of a defamatory 'Prime Time Investigates' programme about Fr Kevin Reynolds.

THE FAMILY of another missionary who was accused of abuse in RTÉ’s Mission to Prey documentary is accusing RTÉ of unfairly targeting their relative.

Two paternity tests have shown that a Co Galway-based priest, featured in an RTÉ 'Prime Time Investigates' programme, is not the father of a Kenyan woman, the High Court has been told.

AN order winding up Pierse Contracting and Pierse Building Services with the loss of 109 jobs was made at the High Court yesterday after the heavily insolvent companies withdrew their petition for examinership.

THE family of murdered French socialite Sophie Toscan Du Plantier has dropped a civil action against self-confessed suspect Ian Bailey, it was confirmed yesterday.