THE High Court has cleared the way for a former Waterford Crystal worker, who has alleged fraud by the company in the operation of its pension scheme in the 1990s, to proceed with claims that the Irish Pensions Trust fraudulently concealed his entitlement to seek a deferred pension when he was made redundant.

A jury in the trial of a 23-year-old Tipperary man accused of murder has heard that a row allegedly broke out after a Halloween bonfire in 2002.