A WAITRESS who suffered severe burns to her leg after her clothing caught fire while working in a restaurant has secured more than €65,000 in damages at the High Court.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy who should have been born healthy but is permanently brain-damaged, blind and quadriplegic because of negligence in his birth at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda has secured €4.35 million in settlement of his High Court action.

TWO sisters who were raped and sexually assaulted by a neighbour after they babysat his children were given more than €1 million in damages in the High Court yesterday.

A man who became severely ill after undergoing what he was informed would be a simple one day medical procedure has been awarded €285,000 in damages by the High Court.

IRISH Shell is facing a multi-million-euro bill after the High Court yesterday ordered it to take immediate steps to clean up the site of Meath County Council’s proposed new civic offices at Trim.

A convicted rapist who attacked a woman in the street just 36 hours after his release from a 15-year prison sentence has been jailed for a further five years by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

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.

Lawyers in Cork lashed out at the authorities today saying that they were duped with the promise of a courthouse but all they got was a warehouse.

BUILDING company Collen Construction is preparing to take legal action against BATU, the bricklayers union, for alleged intimidation and injury against employees at a number of its sites.