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The High Court has awarded €33,000 to a plaintiff for psychiatric damage arising out of witnessing a murder at work. The plaintiff argued that her employer had failed to provide her with a mobile panic alarm pursuant to their policy and that this aggravated the plaintiff’s nervous shock reaction. Delivering judgment in the case, Ms […]

Cork University Maternity Hospital has apologised unreservedly to a nine-year old girl for the life changing injuries caused to her at the time of her birth. The apology was read out in the High Court as Caitlin Twomey settled her legal action with one of the highest interim settlements of €8 million. Damages in the

A sales assistant (29) with thousands of followers on TikTok and YouTube has denied defrauding the Department of Social Welfare out of large sums of money. A €60,000 damages claim by Sean McMillan, of Cromcastle Park, Kilmore West, Coolock, Dublin, for personal injuries against three defendants was thrown out by Judge Cormac Quinn in the

And finally… killer app A woman who allegedly tried to hire an assassin to kill her ex-husband through a transparently fake website called RentAHitman.com has been arrested. The website, which tells visitors it is “no longer affiliated with the Donald J. Trump, CIA, SIS, Diners Club, the Illuminati and Rudolph Giuliani”, claims to be “100%

Motor insurance companies have been accused of exploiting the pandemic to pump up their profits. Insurers saw their profits jump to a 10-year high last year when most people were forced to stay off the roads due to lockdowns. The latest Central Bank report into the motor insurance market shows premiums fell. But the rise

A woman who defrauded her employer out of almost £2m (€2.36 million) can finally be identified almost six years after she was arrested. Julie McBrien, also known as Hogg, blew the cash on a luxury lifestyle in her lavish mansion while pretending to have cancer. https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/woman-stole-almost-23m-from-employer-while-pretending-to-have-cancer-and-spent-it-on-luxury-lifestyle-41016227.html

A High Court judge has praised the courage of parents dealing with children who have claimed to have developed a rare sleep disorder from the swine flu vaccine. Mr Justice Paul Coffey said he was “in wonder at the heroic levels of courage of parents” dealing with these situations as he approved a €1 million

A man who lost part of his left index finger while voluntarily helping to put up timber cladding on the pro-shop of his local golf club has been awarded €101,495 by the High Court. Ms Justice Niamh Hyland ruled Mark McGroarty (48) was not a paid-up member at the time and could therefore sue Cobh

And finally… gangsta’s paradise A public park has introduced designated zones for drug dealers after several failed bids to ban them altogether. The manager of the Görlitzer Park in Berlin, Cengiz Demirci, said the “pink zones” would help families and other park visitors feel less intimidated by the dealers. The park’s drug-dealing zones are marked out