The High Court has awarded €78,300 to a woman whose home was unlawfully entered by gardaí looking for her boyfriend who was wanted on an extradition warrant.

A 47-year-old man with 20 previous criminal convictions who sued after he claimed he was knocked off his bicycle by a car which failed to stop has been awarded €20,000 by the High Court.

The widow of a 79-year-old man who died as a result of spending 36 years of his working life being repeatedly exposed to asbestos particles has settled her High Court action.

A customer services team member in Dublin Airport who claimed she was injured when she fell over a passenger's bag has withdrawn her High Court action.

A customer services team member in Dublin Airport who fell over a passenger's bag has claimed in the High Court her past time as a keen golfer has been affected by a knee injury she sustained in the accident.

Fine Arts student Umesh Maharjan, his counsel Declan Doyle SC told the court, was in excruciating, unbearable pain and has been left with "grossly disfiguring" scars.

A mother of six who claims she was injured when the ceiling in her council house allegedly fell in on top of her has sued in the High Court.

Skibbereen Town Council paid €170,000 yesterday to a boy who sustained a serious injury to his left foot when he was struck by a council truck near his home.

The mother of a young man killed while travelling as a passenger in a stolen car eight years ago has been awarded €72,000.

An English-language teacher who smashed into a wall while doing a bear-crawl at a gym class settled her action for compensation from the fitness centre yesterday.

A teacher who ran into a wall while doing a bear-crawl at a gym class said yesterday: “I don’t think it is fair that I came to the gym, got injured, and now I see my bills stacking up.”

An English language teacher who was doing a bear-crawl as part of gym class smashed into a wall and brought a claim for damages against the gym to the High Court yesterday.

A quality controller suing a meat company for a back injury withdrew his case yesterday, after the judge gave the parties time for a further examination of videos of the plaintiff’s activities.

A quality controller suing a meat company for a back injury was shown on video carrying a fridge and furniture at car boot sales.

A nine-year-old boy, who broke his leg after falling off training goalposts at Mayfield soccer club, has been awarded €55,000 compensation.

A six-year-old boy was savagely attacked by a Jack Russell terrier and left with facial scarring and has now been awarded just over €100,000 at the High Court in Cork.

A kitchen porter in a Killarney restaurant who sued for a back injury suffered lifting a large pot of water from a sink withdrew his case yesterday following lengthy cross-examination at the High Court.

An award of €900,000 was made yesterday to the family of a 42-year-old man fatally injured while training for a charity cycle in Kerry in aid of people with Down Syndrome.

A kitchen porter in a Killarney restaurant brought a case to the High Court yesterday for a back injury suffered lifting a large pot of water from a sink.

A pensioner who claims she fell over baggage, hurting her knee as she went through security at Dublin Airport before flying out on a trip-of-a-lifetime, has sued in the High Court.

A 20- year old man who was abused as a child by a neighbour who threatened to slit the throats of his parents if he told, has been awarded €200,000 by the High Court.

A woman who broke her wrist when she allegedly tripped on stairs at the well known Lillie's Bordello nightclub has settled her High Court action.

A woman who broke her wrist when she allegedly tripped on stairs at the well known Lillie's Bordello night club has sued in the High Court.

A young woman has been awarded €69,000 for injuries she received when a powerboat in which she was a passenger collided with a bridge on the River Shannon.

A warehouse operative's legal action for back injuries allegedly sustained in a workplace accident has been withdrawn after photos of him on a skiing holiday and motorcycling in Europe were shown in the High Court.

The HSE has made a settlement offer of €105,000 to a young woman whose baby boy died in hospital hours after he was born.

A 67-year-old sheep farmer, who produced a knife during a road rage incident, has been ordered to pay €100,000 to the 61-year-old victim in what the High Court judge called an act of inexplicable savagery.

The High Court has awarded €110,000 in damages to a father of a man who contracted hepatitis C and HIV.

A woman’s claim there was “no justification whatsoever” for a symphysiotomy carried out on her in a Dublin maternity hospital in the 60s when she was 24 years old and 12 days before her first baby was born, has been unanimously rejected by a three-judge Court of Appeal.

TV doctor Nina Byrnes has secured a temporary High Court injunction restoring her to possession of a medical surgery she has been operating at a South Dublin shopping centre.

A man suffered life-threatening injuries after he was trapped when a JCB teleporter toppled attempting to lift a heavy shuttering panel on to a building site. He has been awarded €215,000 in the High Court.

A student who suffered a shoulder injury at birth, yesterday settled his High Court action against the HSE for €250,000. Shane Kelly McGrath, aged 15, Stoker’s Lawn, Listowel, Co Kerry, was not in court when the settlement was approved as he was sitting his Junior Cert exams.

A 72-year-old grandmother who slipped and fell in a supermarket carpark on what she claimed were recently painted ground markings has settled her High Court action.

A woman has been awarded €85,000 for injuries she received after she was covered “from head to toe” by varnish when a tin lid fell off as she was scanning it at a self-service checkout in a DIY store.

A school special needs assistant who said she injured herself as she attempted to intervene to stop an autistic child diving off a trampoline has withdrawn her High Court action for damages.

A woman has been awarded €75,000 in High Court damages after she slipped and broke her ankle when crossing a grassy embankment to leave a shopping centre car park.

The HSE has apologised in court to the family of a 39-year old father who died in hospital from meningitis.

An award of €750,000 was made yesterday to a woman who suffered serious injuries when she tripped in what was described as a crater in a road in Skibbereen.

A High Court judge has said he might be “serving womankind” if he could stop people wearing high heels.