A FAMILY who lost their mother after a bus mounted the kerb at Wellington Quay, Dublin, on February 21 last year were yesterday awarded €750,000 by the High Court.

THE scene of last week's bus crash tragedy in Dublin was closed off for several hours yesterday as gardaí staged a reconstruction to help try and establish the cause of the accident.

A 42-year-old Louth man accused of the murder of a German tourist allegedly told gardaí to tell her parents he was sorry for taking her life, a jury heard at the Central Criminal court today.