A Dublin woman who sued her father for damages for sexual assault she suffered between the age of two and 12 has been awarded €375,000 in the High Court.

A 38-year-old mother-of-three has been awarded €375,000 damages against her father who sexually abused her from the age of two or three.

Struck-off solicitor Thomas Byrne has been sent forward for trial accused of stealing approximately €52m in connection with mortgages taken out on more than 20 properties in Dublin.

GORDON ELLIOTT and Paul Carberry doubled-up with Mae’s Choice and Al Dafa in Downpatrick yesterday.

Struck-off solicitor Thomas Byrne was charged today with stealing more than €2m from clients in connection with the purchase of an apartment building in Dublin.

TRAINER David Christie appears to have a cracking sort on his hands in Oscar Fern who impressed by winning the second division of the five and six-year-old geldings’ maiden at yesterday’s Westmeath Foxhounds point-to-point fixture at Castletown-Geoghegan.

A ninth body has been discovered in the rubble at the scene of the Glasgow plastics factory explosion, police said today.

Rescuers confirmed today that they were looking for one remaining victim of the Glasgow factory blast which has claimed eight lives.

Two people are believed to be still trapped beneath the rubble of the Glasgow factory explosion which has so far claimed seven lives, police said tonight.