RTÉ’s failure to include Green Party leader Eamon Ryan in two party leaders’ debates to be broadcast this month is fundamentally “unfair, undemocratic, and unconstitutional”, the High Court has been told.

The Green Party’s legal challenge to RTÉ’s exclusion of Eamon Ryan from a televised party leaders’ debate will be heard at the High Court on Thursday.

A masseur accused of sexually assaulting one of his customers during a massage claims he cannot get a fair trial and that his prosecution should be halted.

A young senior counsel, Conor Dignam, has been given the most important legal assignment of his career — representing the baby whose heart continues to beat in the brain-dead body of its mother in a country hospital.

Hoteliers have launched a High Court challenge against a government decision to retain a Joint Labour Committee to determine pay and conditions for those working in the sector outside of Dublin and Cork City.

The Garda Commissioner has consented to a High Court declaration that a delay of more than two years in investigating a council worker’s complaint against a garda breached the man’s rights to fair procedures and prompt decision.

FOR a little girl who loves to dance, getting to the live semi-final of Sky One’s Got to Dance is a dream come true.

A SCHOOLGIRL who fought back to health after devastating illness and a bank official turned crusading priest who turned himself into a human guinea pig were among the winners of this year’s ESB/Rehab People of the Year Awards.