Sinn Féin TD John Brady and his wife Gayle have been awarded €6,000 over an attempt by a local authority to evict them from their rented council home.

A recently elected county councillor and his wife have launched a High Court action aimed at preventing Wicklow County Council from evicting their family from their home in a row over an attic conversion.

EARLY in 1991, Ken Hogan came home from training one evening to find visitors from Offaly who wanted him to coach their team.