Irish Times - Legal aid disputes: The High Court will rule next week on the lawfulness of remanding accused people who appeared in District Court without lawyers amid a row over the new criminal legal aid payment model; more than 20 challenges have been heard. A planned withdrawal of family law solicitors from civil legal aid next week was averted after talks; Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan will meet the Law Society on Monday over the separate criminal legal aid dispute. - Border explosives case: Law student Isobella Perrie Sullivan (25) was charged with possession of explosives after a device was intercepted in a car near the Border; she was granted bail. A man in his 40s remains in Garda custody. - Historic abuse sentencing: Former Christian Brother Liam Coughlan received a further five-year term for sexually abusing pupils at a Portarlington CBS primary school in the 1980s; Garda searches of pupil rolls uncovered a pattern of school-to-school abuse. He is already imprisoned and is likely to die in custody. - Marital rape conviction: Joseph Jessop was jailed for 10 years for raping and coercively controlling his then-wife, Tracey Jessop, who waived anonymity and said she faced false allegations to Tusla and Gardaí. - Industrial action in care: About 20 housekeeping staff at St Joseph’s Shankill, the State’s largest dementia care facility, will stage a three-day strike from Monday seeking regrading over expanded duties; Siptu says talks with management have stalled. - Landlord-tenant dispute: In a High Court settlement linked to an alleged unlawful eviction, associates of solicitor-landlord Imtiaz Khan agreed not to contact former tenant Muhammad Amjad after a consultant sent him a WhatsApp message. - Fatal crash sentencing: Galway doctor Babak Meshkat was spared prison after admitting careless driving causing the death of his six-year-old daughter, Hana, on the M6 in February; the court heard a catastrophic tyre defect led to the crash and she was briefly unbuckled. - Data/privacy appeal: HSE fire-prevention officer Eamon McShane lost his appeal against the DPC’s refusal to investigate an alleged data breach after the 2021 HSE cyberattack; he claimed €1,400 in cryptocurrency was taken via his personal use of a work phone. - Obituary: Pat Donlon, pioneering first woman to lead a national institution in Ireland and director of the National Library of Ireland (1989–1997), has died aged 83.