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Divorced elderly woman gets reprieve from family home sale order in assets dispute
29+ min ago (732+ words) A woman in her 80s may be able to keep her family home following court orders concerning the sale of the house and four rental properties jointly held by herself and her ex-husband. They also jointly hold companies and about "1. 6 million-worth…...
Seventy Travellers" caravans must be removed from the Curragh, court orders
45+ min ago (325+ words) The High Court has made orders that about 70 Travellers" caravans parked on lands in the Curragh, Co Kildare, should leave immediately. Some of the caravan dwellers were hostile when security company personnel, accompanied by garda" and military police, served papers…...
Occupiers of former Liberties pub remain in situ despite order to leave, court hears
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (229+ words) The occupiers of a former pub in Dublin's Liberties area have continued their activities despite a High Court order last week that they leave within three days, a judge was told on Thursday. A week ago, trespassers at the Ardee…...
Mentally ill prisoner (70s) loses eye after being stabbed with pen by cellmate
1+ hour, 26+ min ago (374+ words) An acutely mentally ill prisoner in his 70s, who has no previous criminal history, has lost an eye in a prison attack after being stabbed with a pen by another prisoner with psychiatric health issues who had been locked up in…...
Managers of former Ibis hotel near Red Cow claim receivers interfering with operation
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (483+ words) The managers of a former Dublin Ibis Hotel, which is used to accommodate refugees, claim that receivers appointed over a separate company involved in the premises are interfering with its management, the High Court heard. Interstate Hotel Management Ireland Ltd…...
Human traffickers jailed in first conviction of its kind in Republic
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (566+ words) Two Eastern European men who trafficked seven people to Ireland for work and subjected them to horrendous conditions have been jailed. Georgijs Poniza (37) was handed a 13-year prison sentence and Armen Pogosyan (30) was given a similar sentence, but with the…...
Cavan solicitor struck off by High Court after misappropriating client funds
2+ hour, 37+ min ago (352+ words) A Co Cavan lawyer who misappropriated client funds has been struck off the roll of solicitors by the High Court. In a judgment published this week, High Court president Judge David Barniville made orders against Ronan O'Brien, after a disciplinary…...
Parents settle action over death of baby four hours after birth at Limerick hospital
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (655+ words) The HSE has apologised and said there were failings in the standard of care to a baby boy who died after his birth at University Maternity Hospital, Limerick. P'draig O'Brien-O'Donnell from Newcastlewest, Limerick, died four hours after his birth at…...
Graham Norton secures court order forcing Meta to disclose those behind "harassing" posts
13+ hour, 17+ min ago (518+ words) Broadcaster Graham Norton has secured a US court order to force social media firm Meta to reveal who is behind a Facebook account publishing "untrue and deeply distressing" posts about his life, legal records show. A submission to a district…...
Firefighter tells Parnell Square trial of injured creche worker "struggling to breathe
3+ hour, 54+ min ago (664+ words) A firefighter has described seeing an "internal organ protruding through" a large laceration on the back of a creche worker, who was near to where a little girl was receiving emergency treatment following reports of a knife attack in Dublin…...