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1 week ago | 
extra.ie | Helen Bruce
The family of murdered informant Denis Donaldson have called for a public inquiry into his death, as they accused Gerry Adams of ‘retraumatising’ them with his libel action against the BBC. The former Sinn Féin president yesterday said he has ‘put manners’ on the BBC, after winning €100,000 in damages over an allegation that he sanctioned the murder of the British spy.
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1 week ago | 
extra.ie | Helen Bruce
The wife of billionaire John Magnier has told the High Court about the meeting she and her husband hosted at Coolmore Stud, in a bid to seal a deal for a neighbouring farm. Susan Magnier, 71, the daughter of legendary Irish trainer Vincent O’Brien said she had asked her staff to ensure there was dinner available for Barne Estate owners Richard Thomson-Moore and his wife Anna.
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1 week ago | 
extra.ie | Helen Bruce
Billionaire John Magnier has said he has been ‘slaughtered’ in the witness box during his High Court case concerning an alleged deal to buy a farm. The businessman said his good name ‘matters a hell of a lot more than money’, and insisted that he was not ‘at war’ with his rival, construction magnate Maurice Regan.
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1 week ago | 
evoke.ie | Helen Bruce
A nurse who slipped on a wet floor while attending a wedding in a four-star hotel has been awarded €72,000 in damages. Pamela Kirby, 42, who had been wearing five-inch stiletto shoes, had told the High Court she was in so much pain after the fall when she exited a lift in Hotel Kilkenny that she thought she was going to die.
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1 week ago | 
extra.ie | Helen Bruce
Billionaire businessman John Magnier has told the High Court that he is not ‘the bad guy’, but that his rival in a multi-million-euro land deal could fairly be described as ‘a dark force’. Under cross-examination, the Coolmore Stud owner also said he did not believe the sellers of the 751-acre Barne Estate in Tipperary were ‘greedy’ in accepting an offer more than € 7 million higher than his.
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1 week ago | 
extra.ie | Helen Bruce
A nurse who slipped on a wet floor while attending a wedding in a four-star hotel has been awarded €72,000 in damages. Pamela Kirby, 42, who had been wearing five-inch stiletto shoes, had told the High Court she was in so much pain after the fall when she exited a lift in Hotel Kilkenny that she thought she was going to die.
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1 week ago | 
extrag.ie | Helen Bruce
Fuair Comhairle um Chearta Sibhialta na hÉireann (ICCL) cead ón Ard-Chúirt cás a thosú in aghaidh Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd. De réir an ICCL, tá an comhlacht ag bailiú agus ag próiseáil faisnéis faoi dhaoine in Éirinn trína gcóras fógraíochta ar líne, go háirithe trí theicníocht ar a dtugtar ‘real-time bidding’ (RTB). Feidhmíonn an córas seo taobh thiar de láithreáin ghréasáin agus aipeanna, agus is féidir leis fógraí a mheaitseáil le daoine aonair i gceann cúpla milleasoicind.
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1 week ago | 
extra.ie | Helen Bruce
The Irish Council of Civil Liberties was given the go-ahead by the High Court yesterday to bring a case aimed at forcing Microsoft to stop the alleged sharing of sensitive data gleaned from people’s internet use with advertisers. The ICCL has taken its action against Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd, on behalf of all Irish users of Office, Windows, Xbox and other popular products.
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2 weeks ago | 
extra.ie | Helen Bruce
Gerry Adams sued the BBC in a ‘cynical attempt… to launder his reputation’, the High Court has been told. The jury heard closing speeches in Mr Adams’s defamation case against the BBC, which he says wrongly alleged that he sanctioned the killing by the IRA of Sinn Féin official and informant Denis Donaldson. Today's top videos STORY CONTINUES BELOW Mr Adams claims the 2016 Spotlight documentary Spy In The IRA damaged his reputation as a peacemaker.
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2 weeks ago | 
extra.ie | Helen Bruce
Gerry Adams has a reputation as a ‘warmonger’ and a ‘peace-taker’, the High Court heard yesterday. Ann Travers, whose sister Mary Travers was shot dead by the IRA during an attempt to kill her father Tom, said Mr Adams had the reputation of ‘supporting the IRA and the murder of innocent people’. Today's top videos STORY CONTINUES BELOW She was among three high-profile witnesses called by the BBC as it defends a defamation action taken by the former Sinn Féin president.
