A woman who sued for compensation after a motorist drove into her parked car told gardaí who arrived at the scene that she was not in the car at the time but went to her local Garda station four days later and said she had been in it.

I REFER to the report entitled “Ahern a bad example to youth, says ASTI chief” (Irish Examiner, September 12), in which Pat Cahill called Bertie Ahern “laddish”.