Irish Rail was guilty of having made “unwarranted slurs” in court against a 26-year-old marketing executive who had sued the company for assault and false imprisonment, said a judge in the Circuit Civil Court.

Fachtna Boland, the grandson and adopted son of former Defence Minister Kevin Boland, has settled a court case in which he had sought to evict his natural mother, Síle Boland, who is a daughter of the former minister.