The judge who ordered a €2.50 drinks price minimum in three seaside resort clubs has been told one breached the spirit of his ruling by not charging for mixers with shorts.

Clubowners in a price war in Bundoran, Co Donegal, were accused yesterday of believing they were “above the law”.

A lawyer has said a price war between rival bar-owning cousins, with one selling cocktails for as little as 50c and another offering as much as customers could drink for €20, was in danger of putting a teenager in the morgue.

A WOMAN who saw a teenager fall 40 feet to his death said she at first thought she was looking at a plummeting parcel.