Seven men have been awarded sums of between €5,050 and €9,550 over a traffic accident after the High Court rejected a car-hire company’s claim the collision was a setup.

The leader of a group which commemorates fallen IRA men has denied in the High Court he was involved in an "arranged road traffic accident."

A MAJOR planning guidelines strategy was launched by the Mid-West Regional Authority yesterday.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent