A man took part in a 67km triathlon five weeks after allegedly suffering “incapacitating injuries” in a bicycle incident involving a hit and run driver, Dublin Circuit Civil Court has heard.

A 15-year-old girl, who suffered an electric shock while exiting from a jacuzzi in her swimwear, was, unknown to her parents, used in a training video shown to staff at a gym where the incident happened, it has been alleged.

Two personal injury claims by James Jordan, husband of Dublin Wives television star Jo Jo Jordan, for damages totalling €120,000 have been thrown out by a judge.

An Irish-based Latvian national has withdrawn personal injury claims for €120,000 against insurance companies and two of their customers after having been secretly photographed lugging suitcases onto a coach he drove while claiming he was unfit for work.

A 12-year-old schoolboy, who will be scarred for life after falling while attending a creche nine years ago, has been awarded €45,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

The mother of Dean Fitzpatrick, who was killed in a stabbing incident involving his stepfather, Dave Mahon, today settled a €60,000 damages claim against Dublin City Council and Irish Water.

A 23-year-old jobless man was followed by a taxi driver because he did not pay a €140 “soilage fee” after vomiting in the vehicle, a court heard.

A 32-year-old Dublin mother who was pepper-sprayed by gardaí when they seized her car and arrested her, has been awarded damages in the Circuit Civil Court for defamation and assault.

A group of Romanians, mainly based in Galway, had been linked to Irish Travellers in an utterly dishonest scam of staging car crashes to mount fraudulent personal injury claims, a judge stated yesterday.

A judge yesterday refused a €28,000 settlement offer to a 10-year-old schoolboy whose nose was fractured during an accident at a summer camp.

A garda who was pushed, punched, and kicked by a man in custody has been awarded €24,000 compensation in the High Court.

Former Miss Ireland Nuala Holloway, who injured her left ankle in a trip and fall at Superquinn Shopping Centre, Blackrock, five years ago, has been awar-ded €12,000 damages.

EVEN the most rural of parishes has its GAA pub, a local hostelry where players past, present and future meet, an informal community centre where supporters of all generations congregate after victory and defeat to mourn or to celebrate as the occasion demands.

“ALL for one and one for all,” the motto coined by Alexandre Dumas for his fictional Three Musketeers; it could instead have been coined for the very real hurling warriors of Effin.

THEIR Premier IHC ambitions may have ground to a halt at the semi-final stage this year but St Catherine’s concluded their 2011 hurling season on a positive note when they claimed the Cork U21BHC title in Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday afternoon.

An INVESTOR who saw his empire dive by €36 million in the property collapse told a judge yesterday he was unable to pay a cent to a former partner to whom he owed €1.2m.

A WOMAN who suffered severe rash burns to her armpits and groin following a bikini wax, has settled a €38,000 damages claim against a beauty salon owner.