Neighbours of a 91-year-old widow have agreed before the High Court to remove a cement barrier which she claimed prevented her from leaving her south Dublin home.

A 91-year-old widow who uses a wheelchair is unable to leave her South Dublin home after the owners of neighbouring property erected a 9-12 inch high concrete barrier at the rear of the property, the High Court has heard.

Malawi, “the warm heart of Africa”, ranks in the bottom 15 of the United Nation’s human development index. A huge proportion of its nearly 17m population live in poverty, infant mortality is extremely high, and life expectancy is low.

THE Dublin County Corner said that 87-year-old Mrs Mary McDonald might have gone home but for a Clostridium Difficile infection.

THE danger of MRSA was highlighted yesterday after a coroner’s court was told about inadequacies for the treatment of such infection at a Dublin hospital.

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The ISEQ in Dublin closed down 26 points, or 0.51%, to 5103.

BUSINESS support services group DCC is confident it will be paid the €14.8 million in damages it has been awarded by the High Court in London against a Taiwanese public company.