A fracas requiring the intervention of gardaí and security erupted in the Four Courts today when it is claimed the defendant in a defamation action was attacked and injured by a group of individuals who attended court.

AFTER spending more than €13 million on the 410-acre estate they bought in 2003, the owners of Sligo’s Lissadell House yesterday looked set to appeal a High Court decision that public rights of way exist across the historic grounds.