THE mother of 33-year-old Dublin train driver Garry Mulligan broke down in tears in court yesterday when she spoke of the pain her son still suffered as a result of his tragic swimming accident in Australia.

FORMER train driver Garry Mulligan, 33, who was paralysed when he broke his neck while swimming during a holiday in Australia, had just proposed to his girlfriend before the accident, the New South Wales Supreme Court was told in Dublin yesterday.

Legal history was made today when an Australian court sat for the first time in the Republic of Ireland to hear how a train driver was paralysed during a holiday swimming accident.

Legal history is being made today as an Australian court sits for the first time in Ireland to take evidence from a man paralysed during a holiday swimming accident.

IRISH legal history will be created next month when an entire Australian court will sit in Dublin to hear a negligence action taken by an Irish holidaymaker who was seriously injured in a diving accident in 1999.