Naas CBS racked up a magnificent six-point victory in Mallow today over Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne to qualify for their first Masita All Ireland PPS senior A football championship final.

Double gold for Ireland was the climax of an historic weekend at the world championships in Bulgaria where Sanita Puspure and the O’Donovan brothers finally reached the top of the podium.

A report by a former chief justice John Murray supports Graham Dwyer’s claim that Ireland’s data retention legislation breaches European laws, the High Court has heard.

Parties in a row between Deutsche Bank and a group of seven Galway firms, involving business debts just short of €700m, have appealed and cross-appealed High Court orders on the future of the companies.

An application to wind up Irish Asphalt Ltd has opened before the High Court.

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.

‘Sunday World’ lawyer criticises ex-footballer who featured in articles as ‘the biggest swinger in town’

Newspaper’s legal team claims ex-footballer’s own conduct has gotten him into difficulties.

The High Court is to conduct a hearing into whether a solicitor acting for Syrian refugees in an action against the EU and the Irish State should pay the legal costs of a case which was withdrawn a day after it started when a judge was told the two families are now in Germany.

A case brought on behalf of six Syrians in Greece seeking to prevent their transfer to Turkey “has nothing to do with Ireland”, the High Court has been told.

A US attorney has been given until next Tuesday by the High Court to come up with €169,000 he admits he owes a businessman or face possibly being sent to prison.

Last Sunday in a little French fishing village called Les Sables D’Olonne a race began which many people say is the most difficult sporting challenge left in the world today, writes Stewart Hosford.

Bo Bo Catering Limited, which runs Silks Chinese Restaurant in The Mall, Malahide, and from which the company claims it has been locked out, is to ask the High Court next week for recovery of the premises.

A man who syphoned off nearly €1m from his business PayPal account to his own bank account has been disqualified by the High Court from acting as a company director for five years.

A severely visually impaired man has claimed his right to vote in secret has been breached by the State’s alleged failure to provide an appropriate mechanism allowing him do so.

A High Court judge has dismissed an application by a boatman to allow him land passengers at the Skellig Michael Unesco world heritage site until his legal action against the Office of Public Works has been determined.

The Health Products Regulatory Authority wants the High Court to dismiss a mother’s case aimed at securing the withdrawal of a vaccine given to schoolgirls to prevent cervical cancer.

The High Court has made formal orders striking down as unconstitutional provisions of a penalty points system for fishermen who engage in illegal, unreported, or unregulated fishing.

A claim Davy Stockbrokers was negligent in advising a businessman to sell investment bonds for around €5.58m which he alleged was at a significant undervalue has been settled, the Commercial Court has heard.

The High Court has declared the manner in which penalty points were imposed on the licence of a sea-fishing vessel over an under-recorded catch was contrary to fair procedures.

A businessman claims Davy Stockbrokers was negligent in advising him to sell investment bonds for around €5.58m which he says was at a significant undervalue.

And so, back to reality. Irish fans returned home yesterday, some bleary-eyes and a little bedraggled, but all filled with optimism after a thumping World Cup win against Canada.

ONE of the most uplifting aspects of travelling around Ireland now is seeing how the appearance of villages has improved so much in recent years.

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A devout Muslim, wanted in the US on a terrorism charge, has told the High Court he went on hunger strike for 22 days because of what he says were the inhuman and degrading conditions he was subjected to while detained at Cork Prison.

Ballindenisk International Horse Trials in Co Cork has for a number of years held a strong attraction for British royal Zara Phillips.

British royal Zara Phillips is to be presented with a stunning drawing of herself and her horse Lord Lauries at Ballindenisk Horse Trials, Co Cork, this weekend.

A century after the last senior rugby international on Leeside, the Ireland Club XV takes on England Counties in Cork this evening.

Longford Town entertain Premier Division side Bohemians in tonight’s FAI Ford Cup fourth round clash at Flancare Park (kick-off 7.30pm).

TONY O’CONNOR spent most of his football life associated with the red and black stripes of Bohemians during a decorated playing career.

ANYONE who even occasionally walks around The Lough in Cork city will be used to seeing close up some interesting wildlife antics from time to time.

YOUR columnist Damien Enright has highlighted the scourge of sea lettuce choking our lovely inlets and bays. Since moving to live close to the beach in Harbour View in Kilbrittain, Co Cork, unfortunately I have had to become used to seeing this phenomenon first-hand over recent years.

I HAVE a question regarding Bertie Ahern and the successive governments he has led over what is generally acknowledged to be the greatest boom this country has ever seen.

LAST WEEK, hawthorn bushes covered in white flowers lined the bye-roads of West Cork, and the woods were bathed in deep purple with very few shafts of sunlight penetrating the thick canopy of the trees. Those beams that broke through spotlighted thick carpets of bluebells and mats of white ramsons on the forest floor.

LIMERICK City Council paid out just over €617,500 in legal expenses to solicitor firms and lawyers last year.

Dublin City 0 Bohemians 0

Drogheda United 2 Dublin City 1

Dublin City 0 Derry City 2

Limerick rower Sinéad Jennings advanced to the final of the Lightweight Women’s Single Sculls at the World Rowing Championships in Spain yesterday by winning her semi-final in a time of 7min 50.56sec, the second fastest time of the day.