A court has heard that the evidence book in the case of an Italian man accused of murdering his landlord in Castleknock, Dublin is still not finished.

The sentencing of two men involved in an incident when former Manchester United footballer Andy Cole was racially abused on a plane has been adjourned.

Model and actor Vivienne Connolly was spared a fine and the possibility of four penalty points on her licence when she appeared in court for speeding.

Seán Quinn Jr’s father-in-law has offered to put up €75,000 towards purging his contempt of court orders restraining stripping of assets from the Quinn family’s international property group, the High Court has heard.

Four TDs — Clare Daly, Luke Flanagan, Mick Wallace, and Joan Collins — want to be joined to businessman David Hall’s legal challenge to the Government’s payment of promissory notes issued in favour of the former Anglo Irish Bank and other financial institutions.

State lawyers have told the appeal of wife-killer David Bourke that the evidence supporting the murder charge was "overwhelming".

A BUSINESS would be dealt a major blow at a “critical” early stage if AIB was granted a “sweeping injunction” stopping several former senior executives from canvassing any clients.

THE High Court has frozen the assets of and suspended a solicitor whom it is alleged has €900,000 missing from his firms’ client accounts.

SIOBHÁN O’BRIEN who has an acquired brain injury following a road accident wants other road users to know that it only took a split second for her life to be turned upside down.

JACK HARMES is a happy child despite being fed through a tube and enduring 10 hours at night hooked up to a dialysis machine.

A DISPUTE between two men involved in the relaunch last summer of a landmark Dublin dancehall, the Ierne Ballroom, has been settled at the High Court.

THE Supreme Court has unanimously overturned the convictions and sentences of two men for “reckless endangerment”.

TWO gardaí who allegedly assaulted two young women in Grafton Street, Dublin, five years ago, will not face disciplinary action.

SEAMUS COWMAN never thought it would come to this – parading his severely disabled daughter in a protest against health spending cutbacks.

Caroline O'Doherty observes sadness and defiance