Full coverage: High Court

As the State starts to settle multi-million-euro claims from private providers over cancelled accommodation contracts, officials are staying tight-lipped on the potential taxpayer bill. Just how high could it rise?

In the final weeks before the 2008 financial crisis, three investors entered trades that would echo through the courts for nearly two decades – ending in a High Court ruling this month.

Denis Connolly, co-proprietor of the upmarket Wicklow wedding venue Tinakilly House, accepted under cross-examination that he used money advanced by his business partner to clear his own debts at a time when he was in financial difficulty.

Lane, the wife of Irish-born businessman Gerry Lane, gave her evidence today in relation to a dispute between the couple and their hotel co-investor Denis Connolly.

Kenny Jacobs was challenging his recent suspension from the airport operator, as well as an independent investigation into 20 claims made against him which he insists are baseless.

A nature NGO wants the court to quash the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board's decision to reverse a ministerial order that stripped a Mowi-subsidiary farm of its right to operate for overharvesting in 2016.

Wilkinsons Brook is an affordable housing project in north Dublin delivered by Glenveagh and the Land Development Agency last year. In recent weeks, nearly a dozen summons have been issued by residents alleging defects at the Hollystown estate.

To avail of generous tax credits, production companies must use special purpose vehicles for each show or movie they produce. This has seen them butt up against crew who want permanent contracts.

Companies owned by the McEnaney family, a leading emergency accommodation provider, are seeking an order to remove people occupying a property on Usher’s Island. Justice Brian Cregan said it is not in the court’s interest to put anyone on the streets.

An Garda Síochána has conceded a judicial review challenge of its refusal to investigate a criminal complaint over the role of Airbnb Ireland in facilitating lettings in illegal settlements. What happens next could have far-reaching impacts on service providers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.