An unaccompanied learner driver, who for no apparent reason “stood on her brakes” at a green traffic light, has lost a €38,000 damages claim against Dublin Bus.

THE Nigerian father of an Irish-born daughter made an unsuccessful public appeal for his two-year-old daughter and his wife to remain in Ireland before the family were deported on a charter flight late on Wednesday.

NIGERIA’S police chief, worried that violence could disrupt today’s presidential election, yesterday warned “thugs” that his 250,000 officers would show no mercy to anyone who disrupted voting.