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Ryanair has been joined to legal actions over the extension of planning permission for the development of a new €320m runway at Dublin Airport.
Ryanair wanted to become a party to the actions because its says that any further expansion by the airline in Dublin will be limited without the infrastructure of the new runway.
The actions have been brought by the Friends of the Irish Environment Group and by 22 individual residents – most with addresses at Kilreesk Lane, St Margaret’s, Co Dublin – against Fingal County Council’s decision of March 7th last to extend a planning permission for ….read more
The acts of a man charged with impeding a homicide investigation “required effort, concentration and thought” and the issue of duress “does not stack up”, a prosecution barrister has told a trial jury.
Mr Patrick Gageby SC, prosecuting, today gave his closing speech in the trial of Aivars Sondors (55), who is charged with three counts of assisting an offender on September 9 or 10 2013 by impeding the apprehension or prosecution of Marius Gaizutis, knowing or believing him to have unlawfully killed Audrius Butkus (44).
The particulars include moving the body from a house on Marsh Road in Drogheda and placing ….read more
An appeal has been brought against a High Court ruling clearing the way for hundreds of damages actions brought by investors who invested in property funds promoted by Allied Irish Bank to proceed to a full trial.
In a judgement last April on a preliminary issue concerning more than 300 actions over the fund known as the Belfry Funds, Mr Justice Robert Haughton held that while elements of the claims are statue barred, the cases can go ahead.
The investors have sued over losses they sustained after they put money into five Belfry Funds. The funds invested in commercial ….read more
A Limerick man who called gardaí and told them he had just tried to kill his elderly neighbour will be sentenced next week for attacking and sexually assaulting the woman.
The 51-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, called to the 66-year-old woman’s home just after nine that evening for “no particular reason”. The separated mother of three lived alone in her Cork home.
Patrick Gageby SC, prosecuting said the man asked the woman if she would share the wine she was drinking with him before he “suddenly switched temper, told her he could have her, clattered her and put a ….read more
A financial fund is seeking judgement for €9.68m against three members of a partnership over an alleged failure to repay a loan.
Promontoria (Arrow) Ltd seeks summary judgement against Mr Pat Burke, of Dunmore, Hayes, Navan, Co Meath, Mr John Donnelly, of Boyne Hill, Navan, and Mr John Fleming, Harlech Crescent, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14 over their alleged failure to repay a loan advanced in 2009.
The action was admitted, following an application by the fund, to the fast track Commercial Court list by Mr Justice Brian McGovern on Monday.
The defendants had opposed the matter being admitted to the list on grounds ….read more
The prosecution at the Special Criminal Court trial of a Limerick man accused of assault has closed its case today.
It is alleged that Larry McCarthy (37) was among a number of people who threatened to use “unlawful violence” and assaulted David Foran (33), who had earlier been knocked down and then offered compensation by a motorcyclist.
Mr McCarthy, with an address at Tower Lodge, Crossgalla, Old Cork Rd in County Limerick has pleaded not guilty to assaulting Mr Foran at Cornmarket Villas on November 25th, 2014.
He has also denied that he and two other people threatened to use “unlawful violence” ….read more
