Former Dairygold chief executive Jerry Henchy has told the High Court he did not have a relationship of “total trust” at all times with the society’s chairman, Vincent Buckley, after Mr Buckley was elected to that position in 2008.

The Equality Tribunal has awarded an accountant €45,000 after it ruled that her employer had manipulated a job interview process to choose a less-qualified candidate.

A MEMBER of the Irish Farmers Association told the High Court yesterday it would be like a “Cromwellian implantation” if an elderly farmer’s land was sold to discharge a debt of almost €700,000 owed to a man injured on his farm.

A LIMERICK bachelor was banned from his home town until he reaches the age of 75, so that the younger brothers and sister of the boy he sexually assaulted will all have reached the age of adulthood.

A CORONER called yesterday for better policing of “off-licence” drugs, often used in chemotherapy treatments, after a cancer patient died after a dosage error.

IRELAND’S new senior men’s hockey coach sees no reason why World Cup and Olympic Games qualification cannot be realistic goals during the coming four years.