An eight-year-old girl who suffered anxiety and stress after she was accidently locked in a classroom for 25 minutes has settled a damages case in the Circuit Civil Court for €20,000.

Ballydoyle debutant Ernest Hemingway proved the undoubted star of last night’s action in Dundalk, romping to an impressive ten lengths win in the Irish Stallion Farms Maiden to spark a double for Aidan and Joseph O’Brien.