A TOP Limerick law firm has settled a huge legal bill with a semi-state company.

THE troubled Shannon Foynes Port Company (SFPC), which will have to pay out hundreds of thousands of euro in damages and costs arising from a recent High Court settlement now faces another court battle.

TRANSPORT minister Noel Dempsey has met with members of the financially troubled Shannon Foynes Port Company as details of huge compensation settlements have emerged.

A STATE company that manages shipping and ports in the Shannon Estuary is allegedly refusing to pay a €1 million-plus legal bill submitted by a Limerick law firm for the handling of an internal dispute.