A HIGH Court judge has ruled most of the 289 people who claim they lost millions of euro after investing in a scheme to buy apartments in India are entitled to recover monies against a Northern Ireland solicitor who had acted for a firm involved in the scheme.

A group of Irish people who invested in a scheme to buy apartments in India have settled their legal action against a businessman and company involved in the venture, which had run into "significant difficulties".

MICHAEL LOWRY asked the son of former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald to intervene on behalf of Ben Dunne in rent negotiations on a building in Dublin’s north inner city, the Moriarty Tribunal heard yesterday.