An 83-year-old woman, who was kicked twice in the legs and several times pushed forcefully back into her chair while being fed by a health carer at Beaumont Hospital, has been awarded €25,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A judge, who last November rejected a €20,000 settlement offer to a three-year-old boy who lost the top of a finger in a “traumatic incident” involving a creche door, yesterday accepted an increased offer of €40,000.

A BURNS victim who needs to shower several times a day because of his injuries was left by Dublin City Council to live in conditions unfit for human habitation, a judge said yesterday.

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