The €40,000 award of damages to hill walker Teresa Wall following a fall on the Wicklow Way is to be challenged in the High Court. Appeal papers are to be lodged within a matter of days, it was confirmed yesterday.

Hillwalker Teresa Wall, who was injured when she fell on a rotting boardwalk on the Wicklow Way, was yesterday awarded €40,000 damages against the National Parks and Wildlife Service.

A newly-wed couple from Co Dublin who booked their honeymoon at a luxury Montego Bay hotel in Jamaica, were forced to move to an inferior hotel after only 48 hours, a judge has heard.

Dublin City Council owns the River Liffey within its local authority boundary by reason of Royal Charters granted by King John in 1200 and 1215, a court has decided.

A JUDGE is to look at laws and charters going back to pre-Magna Carta days in a bid to settle a dispute over Dublin City Council’s legal right to lease out the fishing interests of the River Liffey.