Sir Elton John and David Furnish have accepted “significant” libel damages over a newspaper claim that their dog inflicted “Freddy Krueger-like injuries” on a child at a play date. The couple, who were not at London’s High Court today, brought proceedings against News Group Newspapers (NGN) over a front-page story in The Sun on Sunday [...]
Former rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight has pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter after he ran over two men, killing one, nearly four years ago. The Death Row Records co-founder entered the plea on Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court and has agreed to serve 28 years in prison. Knight was charged with murder, attempted [...]
A jury has returned verdicts of accidental death at inquest arising from a car crash that claimed the lives of three generations of the same family in Co Mayo last year. Mary Ann Wilson, 67, her 39-year-old daughter, Marcella, and her six-year-old son, Sean, died when the car they were travelling in collided with a [...]
New judicial guidelines for personal injury claims have been recommended as "a matter of urgency" by an official report. Compensation for 'whiplash' claims here are running at 4.4 times the level in Britain according to the Personal Injuries Commission. The Commission found that the average soft tissue award is €17,338 compared to just €3,984 in [...]
Lisa Armstrong is said to be filing for divorce from estranged husband Ant McPartlin on grounds of adultery. Ant and Lisa publicly announced their split in January of this year, having secretly ended their relationship a couple of months prior. As of yet they have still not officially filed divorce papers, however, it’s been claimed [...]
Controversial media personality Katie Hopkins has allegedly applied for an insolvency arrangement in a last ditch attempt to avoid bankruptcy, after piling up debts. In 2017, Hopkins lost a libel case against the food blogger Jack Monroe after sending two tweets in which she implied that Monroe supported the vandalism of a war memorial. The [...]
Una Healy has broken her silence following her split from husband Ben Foden, saying her "life has been turned upside down". The Saturdays star confirmed that she and rugby player Foden were parting ways after six years of marriage in July. The couple share two children together, Aoife, six, and Tadhg, three. The singer has now commented on their [...]
British couple John and Susan Cooper died after contracting E. Coli, it has been confirmed. The couple had been had been staying at the five star Steigenberger Aqua Magic Hotel in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada. John and Susan, from Burnley, Lancashire, died within hours of each other while staying with their daughter, Kelly [...]
MIXED MARTIAL ARTIST Michael Chiesa has filed a lawsuit against his fellow UFC lightweight Conor McGregor following the Irishman’s attack on a bus at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, back in April. The 30-year-old filed the suit in Kings County, California on Monday, five months after McGregor’s barrage of the bus left him with cuts on his [...]
Residential property prices posted their slowest annual growth rate in over a year in July, rising 10.4% compared with a three-year high of 13.3% in April. The latest figures from the Central Statistics Office also showed that residental property prices outside of Dublin continued to increase at a faster pace than in the city. Prices [...]