A Clare woman left permanently disabled with severe back and other injuries after slipping on grapes while shopping in a Tesco store has had her €1.43m damages award reduced to €1.25m.

TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern was “very much in evidence” at a Fianna Fáil fundraiser attended by land speculators whose north Dublin property rezoning is being probed by the Mahon Planning Tribunal, it emerged yesterday.

FIANNA FÁIL Deputy GV Wright was ordered by the Mahon Planning Tribunal yesterday to provide details of payments, or political donations, received from developer Robert White.

FORMER Fianna Fáil TD Liam Lawlor will learn if he faces a possible fourth term in jail today after frantic efforts to meet a deadline to provide the Mahon Tribunal with further information on his complex financial dealings.