A High Court judge has disqualified Independent TD Mick Wallace from involvement in companies for six years arising from his stewardship of the affairs of his construction company, M.J. Wallace.

A High Court judge has ruled certain documents sought by TD Mick Wallace and his son, Sasha, to defend a fund’s application for disqualification orders against them under the Companies Act are either unnecessary or irrelevant.

A NEWLYWED couple from Ireland who travelled to New Orleans for the honeymoon of their dreams told yesterday how they were rescued from the squalor and mayhem of the storm-ravaged city.