A firm of insurance brokers is entitled to damages against a Cork-based firm of solicitors over negligent handling of litigation, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The amount of damages will be decided later by the High Court.

THE High Court is hearing a €17.6 million damages for negligence claim by an insurance brokerage against eight solicitors in the firm of Coakley Moloney Solicitors, South Mall, Cork.

THE market keeps on throwing up astonishing results, but last Friday’s auction result for a sleeping beauty of a house in Glounthaune surpassed all expectations.