Russell Brand has cancelled the rest of his stand-up tour following his mother's car accident revealing that that she has sustained "numerous, life-threatening injuries". The comedian’s 71-year-old mother, Barbara was rushed to hospital after being badly injured in a hit-and-run car crash on Thursday (April 27). She was in the back of the comedian's chauffeur-driven Audi [...]
Catriona Fitzpatrick, the wife of Sean Fitzpatrick, the former chairman of the collapsed Anglo Irish Bank, is claiming around €6m in assets some of which were jointly held by the couple before her husband was declared bankrupt in 2010, the High Court has heard. Mrs Fitzpatrick was giving evidence on the second day of the [...]
A 23-month-old boy, who had not been conceived when his little sister was killed in a hit-and-run in Dublin's Phoenix Park on 6 April 2015, has been awarded "grief money" for her death. Marcel Siatka was born in May 2016, a year and 47 days after his sister Vanessa died in what a trial judge [...]
A van driver who claimed he hurt his back when a mattress he was delivering was lifted by a gust of wind into the air, draggging him four metres, has been awarded €380,000 damages. Declan Homan was delivering the mattress to an apartment on the last of 16 deliveries when he was “caught by a [...]
An appeal by businessman Denis O'Brien against the High Court's dismissal of his action over statements made in the Dáil about his banking affairs will begin in the Supreme Court this morning. Mr O'Brien is appealing against the High Court's decision that it had no power to rule on issues raised by him about how [...]
Bankrupt businessman Sean Dunne has said that even though his home in the US was empty, he "didn't need furniture to live in a house". Mr Dunne yesterday told the High Court he has lived on occasions without furniture and that he had previously stayed in tents in African townships. He was giving evidence yesterday [...]
Republic of Ireland footballer Darron Gibson is appearing in court today charged with drink-driving following a St Patrick's Day crash. The 30-year-old midfielder was on his way to meet colleagues at Sunderland's Academy of Light when he was involved in a collision on Dovedale Road on Saturday March 17. The former Manchester United and Everton [...]
Adventurer Mark Pollock, who was left paralysed after falling through the upstairs window of his friends house, is in line for multi-million-pound compensation after a judge has upheld his personal injury claim against Enda and Madeline Cahill. The 39-year-old Commonwealth Games medal winner, who was the first blind man to reach the South Pole, was [...]
A man is suing an airline, claiming he got a back injury after being forced to sit next to an obese man who coughed a lot. James Andres Bassos has taken Etihad Airways to court in Queensland saying he was forced to twist and contort his body for long periods on a 2011 flight from [...]
A 12-year-old girl suffered serious injuries when she fell from a trailer after being attacked by a cow in rural Te Awamutu on Sunday - the latest in more than 4000 incidents where people were hurt by cattle in the last year. A St John spokeswoman said crews attended the incident about 11am and the [...]