More than 50 Portuguese workers have failed to get an order for enforcement across the EU of damages judgments totalling €1. 2m over their “appalling” treatment by their former employers when working on the N7 motorway over ten years ago.

Ms Justice Mary Irvine of the Supreme Court. Picture: Collins A top judge dealing with a backlog of personal injury cases has called on people open to settling their cases to do so without having to come before court.