Former journalists John Waters and Gemma O'Doherty application for permission to bring a challenge against laws introduced due to the Covid-19 pandemic will be heard before a High Court judge next week.
In judicial review proceedings against the State and the Minister for Health they seek to have various pieces of recently enacted legislation quashed by a judge of the High Court.
The action was mentioned before the High Court today. Mr Justice Charles Meenan fixed the hearing of Ms O'Doherty and Mr Waters' application for permission to bring the challenge for next Tuesday, 5 May.
The High Court had previously directed that the application for permission to bring the challenge be heard in the presence of the respondents.