A seven-year-old schoolboy, whose right leg was broken while he was bouncing on a trampoline at his home, has been awarded €35,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court against Smyths Toys.

A DUBLIN County Coroner was “biased” in the conduct of an inquest that resulted in a jury finding that an unidentified dead baby which was found in a laneway in Dun Laoghaire in 1973 was the child of Cynthia Owen, the High Court was told yesterday.