Provisional liquidator appointed to major carrot producer unable to pay debts
Court hears Co Kilkenny company produces 12 per cent of Ireland’s carrots, as well as parsnips and daffodils
High Court
Women in same-sex marriage given leave to challenge refusal of passport for their daughter
State has refused Irish passport for couple’s daughter, who was conceived through IVF in UK
An Taisce seeks judicial review of nitrates action programme
Water protection plan has repeatedly failed to safeguard waterways from farm pollution, group says
Row over deal for access to land for wind farm is settled
Case centred on alleged failure to honour agreement to facilitate access to land in Co Galway for turbines
Legal challenge to housing development at former Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum withdrawn
Developer Mark Leonard has withdrawn High Court challenge
Educational tech firm threatens rival school supplier with litigation for questioning its finances
Olive Media wrote to schools after learning of email sent by IT supplier Wriggle
Two TDs awarded 50% of costs in unsuccessful legal challenge over ‘super junior’ ministers
State ordered to pay portion of legal costs incurred by Sinn Féin’s Pa Daly and People Before Profit-Solidarity’s Paul Murphy
Alleged squatter seeks to dispute claim he has no right to be in house owned by charity
Man tells High Court he moved into the property ‘because of a threat from the far right’
Pregnant girl (16) can be given treatment despite religious objection to blood transfusion
The girl told her court-appointed guardian that if the decision was taken out of her hands it would be easier, but she would still feel guilty about it
Excluding media from Garda whistleblower hearing ‘must be strictly justified’, judge says
Detective superintendent seeks to quash WRC ruling that case contains ‘sensitivities’ to be kept from public
X refused stay in Coimisiún na Meán challenge
Judge Cian Ferriter said that in his view, lawyers for X overstated the extent to which the platform would be prejudiced in the event that a stay was not granted
Speculation on circulated graphic image of student was ‘harming’ community, says UCD president
University says it cannot run internal investigation while gardaí are investigating sharing of intimate image of medical student
Vulnerable child has spent six weeks in windowless hospital room in absence of ‘safe alternative’
High Court grants HSE extension to order keeping teenager with ‘extreme needs’ in room with mattress on floor
‘You have mocked God,’ Enoch Burke tells judge after jailing of his mother and sister
Judge notes we live in a democracy, not a ‘theocracy governed by the Burke family’
Injunction sought over occupation of Ballyfermot car park at rear of former Gala Cinema
Building owner claims former car park tenant and a number of others had illegally taken possession of property
Time to halt Burke ‘family circus’: Judge sentences Enoch Burke’s mother and sister to prison for two weeks
Ammi Burke’s behaviour described as ‘disgraceful’ for a solicitor by Judge Brian Cregan
Landlord accused of evicting family while wielding hammer denies ‘outrageous’ claims
Judge notes how alleged eviction occurred just before new rent rules came into force
Garda suspended for lending man bicycle during pandemic to receive more than €250,000 in damages
Detective removed from duties for more than three years after he gave bike from a station to older man in his community
High Court cancels registration of nurse convicted of secretly filming child in changing room
Nursing board ruled Francisco Javier Valverde Mateo’s offence rendered him permanently unfit to continue practising
TikTok challenge to DPC privacy breach finding opens before High Court
Regulator also imposed fine of €530 million on the company
EDreams allegedly involved in scheme to avoid Ryanair secure booking system, court told
Ryanair head of litigation Ruth Comiskey said carried faced significant regulatory data, consumer and reputational risk as a consequence of eDreams’ conduct
Malahide property owners dispute claim they caused embankment to collapse on to rail line
Irish Rail and CIÉ sought injunction against couple who they allege had ‘very significant’ outbuilding constructed on CIÉ-owned land
Man who claimed he had consensual sex with student (16) struck off teaching register
High Court judge says sanction for teacher ‘well merited’ given the case involved professional misconduct of the most serious kind
Family settles action over woman’s death from Covid-19 in first case of its kind to come before court
Action claimed Elizabeth Carroll, who had blood cancer, was exposed to avoidable risk of infection during transfers from Mercy University Hospital in Cork to nursing facility
No secure bed available for suicidal teenager apparently abandoned by parents
Child’s mother lives outside jurisdiction and cannot be contacted and father ‘wants no role’ in care proceedings, judge hears
Greg Kavanagh property company pursued over €1.8m deal to buy land in Meath
Three businessmen seek High Court orders in relation to a site that had permission for 35 homes
Transfer of Enoch Burke to Castlerea Prison has ‘no basis in law’, brother claims
No actual evidence before court that jailed teacher had been moved from Mountjoy Prison, judge says
Paddy McKillen jnr challenges bankruptcy move against him over alleged €2.1m debt
McKillen jnr denies debt and wants bankruptcy summons dismissed
McVerry Trust seeks to have man subject to order that he vacate property
Charity wants man who moved in to one of its properties earmarked for homeless people to leave before end of February
High Court strikes down appeal over examinership refusal for developer of €34.6m office block
Examinership might be in interests of company principals but it would be hard to see how it would benefit the wider economy, judge said
Enoch Burke seeks permission to bring late appeal against order banning him from school
In 2023, a High Court judge ruled that Wilson’s Hospital School validly had suspended Burke from his teaching role
Supermac’s owner fails in bid to block legal costs protection for environmental group
Friends of the Irish Environment challenging wastewater connection agreement for new motorway service station in Co Clare
Negligence case against GP over gastroenteritis diagnosis is dismissed
Doctor made reasonable diagnosis of 11-year-old, court finds, despite failure to refer her to hospital
‘It is money talking’: Rathgar has mixed views on Kenilworth Square plan
High Court granted temporary injunction preventing St Mary’s College from felling trees for sporting facility construction
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