Approving the final figure, the president of the High Court Mr Justice Peter Kelly paid tribute to teenager Lee Gibson's 32-year old mother Aileen Gibson, who he said was doing a great job looking after her son.

A retired psychiatric nurse who was injured in a car crash four years ago and slipped in a supermarket a few months later was awarded over €100,000 in compensation yesterday.

An English-language teacher who smashed into a wall while doing a bear-crawl at a gym class settled her action for compensation from the fitness centre yesterday.

A teacher who ran into a wall while doing a bear-crawl at a gym class said yesterday: “I don’t think it is fair that I came to the gym, got injured, and now I see my bills stacking up.”

A quality controller suing a meat company for a back injury withdrew his case yesterday, after the judge gave the parties time for a further examination of videos of the plaintiff’s activities.

A quality controller suing a meat company for a back injury was shown on video carrying a fridge and furniture at car boot sales.

A kitchen porter in a Killarney restaurant who sued for a back injury suffered lifting a large pot of water from a sink withdrew his case yesterday following lengthy cross-examination at the High Court.

An ambulance crashed on the way to the scene of a fatal car crash, it emerged during a High Court case yesterday.

A 36-year-old woman who was knocked down stairs as bouncers put an unruly patron out of a pub claimed €750,000 for future loss of earnings.

John Lucey explains the need for expert advice when it comes to Personal Retirement Bonds.

Minister for Local Government Simon Coveney has announced a review of the controversial merger plan for Cork city and county councils in a bid to find a compromise.

A penicillin injection was given to a woman aged 75 at Cork University Hospital but she was allergic to the medicine and died within hours.

A teenager who suffered life-altering injuries when struck in the head by a hurley thrown across a schoolyard, has been awarded €550,000 in compensation by the school’s insurers.

Two key figures in the body which recommended a merger of Cork city and county councils have declined several invitations to appear before an Oireachtas committee.

THAT the report from a five-person committee asked to consider the amalgamation of Cork city and county councils submitted to Environment Minister Alan Kelly last week was adopted by the narrowest possible margin is not at all surprising. Indeed, any other outcome would have been entirely unexpected.

A landmark report recommending the merger of Cork city and county councils will be published today.

Cork’s most senior government minister has refused to say whether he favours a merger of the region’s two local authorities or a city boundary extension.

A split has emerged in the Cork local government review group with two of its five members poised to vigorously oppose a recommendation to merge the two local authorities.

18 lord mayor have set aside party politics to unite against a super council and to spark public debate, says Eoin English

The owners of a Kinsale hotel where a man claimed he fell from a third-floor window and ended up with life-changing injuries have applied to the High Court to have his action for damages dismissed.

Group to issue recommendations on local government in September, says Eoin English

A pensioner who went to buy a waterproof gazebo to place over her cake stall at a farmers market broke her hip in a fall at Dunnes Stores. Yesterday she was awarded €137,000 compensation at the High Court in Cork.

The girlfriend of an Englishman who has sued claiming he suffered life-changing injuries when he fell out of a hotel window in Kinsale yesterday told the High Court it was not true to say that on the night she and Jason Platt were arguing and that he threatened to jump.

An Englishman who has sued a Kinsale hotel, claiming he fell 8m from a third floor bedroom window, yesterday denied in the High Court he had jumped after a row with his girlfriend.

The chair of the expert group reviewing Cork’s city boundary and possible merger of the city and county councils has promised full engagement with stakeholders.

A Polish school principal cycling in West Cork described how he feared for his life after being struck by a lorry.

The president of the High Court has welcomed progress made by a young woman with severe anorexia nervosa who remains subject to orders permitting her to be fed against her wishes if necessary.

Campsite owners concede they are having their best July in 30 years as families haul dusty tents out of the shed and maximise their time outdoors in the good weather.

A little Cork boy who lost his right arm in a horrific lawnmower accident was yesterday awarded €1.5m in compensation.

A man attacked with a hammer for selling Bisto instead of heroin settled a compensation claim without reference to lawyers, the High Court sitting in Cork heard yesterday.

The mother of a French student has been awarded €47,500 after he died as a result of the inhalation of gas from a cooker at his rented home in Co Cork.

A young mother who was involved in a double fatal car crash was over the legal alcohol limit when she drove in the wrong direction on a dual carriageway.

The South Infirmary Hospital in Cork has issued an unreserved apology to the family of a man with Crohn's disease, who died as a result of medical negligence.

A HIGH Court decision will be given next week on whether an interlocutory injunction will be granted to a 47-year-old group training manager with a newspaper group who is seeking orders restraining his dismissal and directing he be paid pending a full hearing of the case.

A HEN night celebration led to a party-goer cutting her right buttock on a collapsing toilet bowl in a West Cork hotel, it was claimed yesterday.

The biggest oil slick to threaten Ireland for more than 10 years was tonight being tracked as it moved closer towards coastlines.

I READ with some horror the article on pensions by Paul Mills (Irish Examiner, September 28). This misleading and almost entirely inaccurate rubbish cannot pass without retort.

JOHN LUCEY (Irish Examiner letters, August 23) argues that under the habitats directive, salmon are only protected while in fresh water and that, therefore, the EU Commission is in error in contending that drift netting at sea for salmon cannot be brought within the terms of the directive.

THE European Commission (EC) has requested Ireland to take further steps to ensure that, from next year onwards, its wild salmon fishery fully respects the terms of the habitats directive.

MUNSTER and Ireland hooker Frankie Sheahan faces an anxious wait in the battle to clear his name of a doping charge, after an independent Judicial Tribunal decided to postpone making a decision on the case until later in the week.

The mother of hill walker Joan O’Leary, who died after a fall while hill-walking in Kerry, revealed today how horrific accidents have robbed her of two children.

The Kerry Mountain Rescue Unit is this morning attempting to recover the bodies of two hill climbers, including that of the General Secretary of the Soldiers Union, John Lucey.

One of the people who died on Carrauntuohill mountain yesterday has been named as John Lucey, Secretary General of the defence forces represetatives body PDFORRA.

The bombing campaign against Afghanistan will drive civilians into the arms of Islamic fundamentalists and could even lead to a third world war, members of the Dáil said today.