A SCHEME under which two directors of one of the country’s largest construction companies received Ir£600,000 (€760,000) in tax-free dividends was a tax avoidance scheme involving a misuse of export sales tax reliefs, the High Court ruled yesterday.

THE parents of a nine-year-old boy who died in a construction site explosion said yesterday that nothing could be done to bring their boy back.

A boy playing on a building site lost his life after a barrel of dangerous material caught fire and exploded and today a firm pleaded guilty to health and safety breaches and was fined €200,000.