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1. Fisheries officer sent bill for €24,000 for damages following crash in uninsured State car

   WRC hears IFI officer penalised, ostracised and singled out after he made protected disclosures regarding the insurance issue

2. Defamation action brought by former planning body official against Irish Examiner opens

   Former executive director of Irish Planning Institute is suing over January 2023 articles, claiming they were defamatory

3. Michael Flatley in further High Court dispute with former solicitor following Cork mansion case

   At issue is €1.4m lodged in court which the solicitor says he is entitled to €200,000 of

4. What can students from Deis schools learn from business mentors?

   Mentoring at Deis schools for fifth and sixth years aims to inspire, motivate and give confidence to young people

5. Dublin-based French woman charged with murder of daughter in suspected botched murder-suicide pact in Iceland

   Family from French island territory in Pacific lived in Dublin for several years before 2025 incident in Reykjavik and have been named for the first time

6. Kyiv: Ireland housing crisis will not be solved by phasing out Ukrainians’ accommodation

   Government move ‘will not solve problems that existed before’ people fleeing Russian invasion arrived, says deputy head of Zelenskiy’s office

7. Regulator upholds woman’s complaint over solicitor’s €246 ‘storage’ fee for mother’s will

   More than 1,000 complaints received against legal practitioners in six months to March

8. ‘No one wants this’: Dunmurry residents resolute after car bomb attack

   Sheila Melly (78) felt lucky to live next to the police station — until an ‘unmerciful bang’ shattered the night

9. Spanish authorities freeze Gerry Hutch’s property assets as part of money-laundering investigation

   Gangland figure and Dublin Central byelection candidate has refused to detail property holdings

10. Gerry Hutch’s assets: On the trail of a gang leader turned politician

    The Irish Times visited Lanzarote as part of an investigation into Hutch’s property interests. In an interview, the veteran criminal talks about his ‘exaggerated’ property holdings, hope of becoming the ‘richest’ TD and confidence of being exonerated in a Spanish criminal investigation