Fund entitled to €4.85m judgment against developer Tom Doran‘Canny businessman’ was ‘not deceived into taking any step’ when loans advanced to buy Westmeath lands says judgeFri Sept 26 2025 - 15:52
Support service for victims in court is ‘invaluable’, says former State pathologist Demand for voluntary service rising as it marks 20 years of supporting victims of crime and their familiesFri Sept 26 2025 - 10:00
Father urges State to help him get toddler daughter back to Ireland in ‘heart-rending’ caseChild taken by her mother to Poland without her father’s consent in dispute over medical treatmentWed Sept 24 2025 - 18:45
Academic seeks to challenge ‘unlawful’ nomination process for presidential electionProcess has turned election into ‘complete farce’, claims Dr Cora Stack Wed Sept 24 2025 - 17:55
Judge approves survival scheme saving 138 jobs at Cavan recycling plantWellman International has been based in Mullagh for more than 50 years Tue Sept 23 2025 - 16:51
Father fails to overturn secure care refusal for teenage son involved with drugs gangSocial workers made three referrals in a year for secure care due to ‘extremely significant’ risk to boyMon Sept 22 2025 - 18:14
Court protection extended for Galway man pursuing insolvency arrangement over €8.5m debts More time may help achieve ‘amicable resolution’ over debts, High Court toldMon Sept 22 2025 - 17:47
Ireland’s judge on Europe’s human rights court says court facing ‘serious test’ Event marking 50 years of Law Reform Commission hears of ‘chilling’ cases before human rights courtSun Sept 21 2025 - 06:00
Row over State failure to accommodate asylum seekers may go to Supreme CourtThe Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is seeking leave to appeal finding State did not breach human dignity rights of international protection applicantsThu Sept 18 2025 - 16:21
Conor McGregor seeks permission from Supreme Court for further appeal over ruling in favour of Nikita Hand Lawyer says ‘lip service’ paid by courts to right to silence of McGregor Thu Sept 18 2025 - 12:56
Man with €161 recorded income loses appeal over finding house and cash funded by drug money Dermot Calvert was ‘primary target’ of Criminal Assets Bureau investigation, appeal court saidTue Sept 16 2025 - 16:15
Former attorney general to challenge Slane bypass planning approval in High CourtJohn Rogers says his lands and Unesco World Heritage Site will be affected by projectMon Sept 15 2025 - 19:28
DPP to appeal court ruling affecting thousands of drink-driving prosecutionsHigh Court decision identifies road traffic law inconsistencyMon Sept 15 2025 - 06:00
Interim examiner appointed to renewable energy firm Arena Capital PartnersCompany apologises to holders of €111m in debt over failure to adequately communicate with them in recent months Fri Sept 12 2025 - 19:25
‘Inspirational’ human rights lawyer Conor Gearty dies aged 67President Michael D Higgins leads tributes for Longford-born law professor and author Fri Sept 12 2025 - 18:17
X gets stay on temporary orders requiring it to reinstate account of cryptocurrency analystAnalyst claims he is $20,000 a month out of pocket and followers at risk of being scammed by alleged impersonator accounts Fri Sept 12 2025 - 15:21
Survival plan could save 138 jobs at Co Cavan recycling firm, examiner saysBusiness manufactures recycled polyester fibre products from used plastic bottles and polyester waste Fri Sept 12 2025 - 06:00
Cryptocurrency analyst gets temporary court order requiring X to reinstate his accountAnalyst claims he is losing up to $20,000 dollars monthly due to suspensionThu Sept 11 2025 - 17:09
Garda who engaged in sexual act with woman in station challenges fresh suspensionGarda Raymond Hegarty claims suspension decision is unlawful and irrationalWed Sept 10 2025 - 20:09
Showjumper’s ex-partner denies he lacked authority to remove horses from equestrian centreFive horses to be held in independent care pending outcome of dispute, with sixth and most valuable horse subject of separate caseWed Sept 10 2025 - 18:31
Inis Oírr to receive €36m for new pierRecord funding package will mean ‘safety and certainty’ and is ‘statement of intent’ on future of islandsThu Aug 28 2025 - 17:49
Man faces possible sale of €1.2m family home if €350,000 debt to brothers not paid in six monthsDebt arose after order was pulled for Irish souvenirs including leprechauns and fairy doors Thu Aug 14 2025 - 19:03
DPP mulls decision on perjury prosecution over withdrawn evidence in Conor McGregor appeal Should DPP proceed, this would mark only second prosecution under 2021 perjury law and sixth in past decadeWed Aug 13 2025 - 06:00
Mary Robinson urges states to act decisively to stop Gaza’s ‘unfolding genocide’Elders group urge targeted sanctions on Israeli prime minister and security cabinetTue Aug 12 2025 - 15:04
Child with additional needs loses legal challenge over year-long delay getting school transportHigh Court says claim can be renewed if transport not available in SeptemberTue Aug 12 2025 - 10:28
Man fails to halt sister’s damages claim against him over alleged rape and sexual abuseBrother denies he sexually assaulted his younger sister when she was between 11 and 13 years oldMon Aug 11 2025 - 06:00
Mother secures two-year barring order against son who threatened to kill her ‘stone dead’Mother gets two-year barring order as judge orders son to ‘sort out your demons’Sun Aug 10 2025 - 06:00
Gardaí investigate alleged perjury involving couple in Conor McGregor civil rape case appealNikita Hand’s neighbours’ evidence was withdrawn by McGregor’s side at the start of the appealSat Aug 09 2025 - 14:13
The struggle to rein in Ireland’s teen offenders: ‘These gangs have no fear of recrimination’Judges face daily dilemma over insufficient places as concerns expressed that ‘feral’ gangs are committing crimes ‘without any fear of recrimination’Sat Aug 09 2025 - 06:05
Teenagers ‘back on the tear’ within hours of court hearings amid lack of places at OberstownDistrict Court president Paul Kelly says the child justice system is at risk of being brought ‘into disrepute’Sat Aug 09 2025 - 06:00
High Court judge says judgments should avoid Latin and ‘terms of art’Legal terms for costs orders would mean ‘double-Dutch’ to lay person, says judge in costs rulingThu Aug 07 2025 - 15:29
Developer fails in last-ditch bid to salvage approval for apartments near Royal Hospital KilmainhamProposed development was for five apartment blocks, including an 18-storey towerWed Aug 06 2025 - 17:18
Couple fails to stop demolition of Co Meath home built in ‘wilful’ breach of planning laws almost 20 years ago After 2006 planning application was refused, couple built house anyway, at twice the size Tue Aug 05 2025 - 18:30
Prominent criminal defence lawyer Martin Giblin dies aged 73Lawyer represented Ian Bailey in successful appeal against French extradition bidMon Aug 04 2025 - 15:19
Nikita Hand to sue Conor McGregor and two former neighbours over withdrawn claims in failed appealThe High Court action was filed on Thursday, shortly after the Court of Appeal dismissed McGregor’s applicationFri Aug 01 2025 - 09:17
Conor McGregor loses civil rape case appealNikita Hand says she has been ‘retraumatised’ by the appeal case but she can ‘finally move on and try to heal’Thu Jul 31 2025 - 23:47
Torture of woman by group of men in Dublin flat involved ‘truly barbaric’ violence, says judgeFive men jailed for terms of between 8.5 and 14 yearsThu Jul 31 2025 - 06:00
‘Numb’: Woman’s life ‘changed forever’ after being tortured by five men in a Dublin flat Judge Pauline Codd described the offending as ‘brutal, violent and sadistic’ Wed Jul 30 2025 - 17:03
Legal bid to compel Government to suspend military-related trade with Israel filed in High Court High Court case also alleges weapons to Israeli army are being unlawfully transported through Irish airspaceTue Jul 29 2025 - 16:46
Disqualification and €130,000 fine for former Irish Nationwide finance director confirmedCentral Bank sought sanction confirmation over John Stanley Purcell’s role in regulatory breaches at INBS before its collapseTue Jul 29 2025 - 16:22
Dispute over elderly Wexford man’s will leaving estate to 38 nieces and nephews goes to Circuit CourtNephew claims uncle promised farmhouse property to him before deathMon Jul 28 2025 - 06:00
Wife and ex-partner of ‘controlling and dangerous man’ secure protection orders In separate case, mother gets barring order against mentally ill son who came into house with crowbar Sun Jul 27 2025 - 06:00
Judge rules diamond solitaire and two rings worth €25,000 are part of Foxrock woman’s estateHigh Court makes orders in administration of estates of Matthew and Elizabeth Connolly who died within six months of each otherSat Jul 26 2025 - 06:00
Suspended solicitor says ‘nothing sinister’ in his handling of land transfer deal Judge to rule on later date on Declan O’Callaghan’s appeal over findings of professional misconductFri Jul 25 2025 - 06:00
Analysis: Brian O’Shea’s resignation was a rare case of a judge leaving on their own termsDistrict Court judge resigned from the bench this week to return to practise as a barrister in an unusual move Thu Jul 24 2025 - 13:26
Suspended solicitor weaving ‘wholly false’ narrative over nature of land deal, High Court toldAppeal by Declan O’Callaghan over professional misconduct findings opens at High CourtThu Jul 24 2025 - 06:00
Woman with black eye and newborn baby claims husband ‘kicked me and dragged me up and down’Three mothers with babies get emergency protection under domestic violence laws Sun Jul 20 2025 - 07:00
Behind the ‘perfect family’: How ‘great fear’ stopped Dublin sisters revealing abuse by brothers Mother silenced daughters, telling them: ‘Anything that goes on in this house is to stay within the four walls of this house’Sat Jul 19 2025 - 06:00
Woman believed to be Ireland’s oldest person dies days before 109th birthday Sarah Coyle was born in 1916 and survived two pandemicsTue Jul 15 2025 - 21:08
Brothers’ abuse of sisters was hidden in Dublin family for yearsThree sisters were sexually abused by brothers in Rathfarnham home Tue Jul 15 2025 - 06:00
