The first ever court action taken by an Irish prisoner for damages for slopping out of prison-cell chamber pots was dismissed today.

The extraordinary dispute between suburban neighbours was described as a very sad case that should never have come to court and the judge said today that 26-year-old Michael Troy Cremin was the cause of it getting that far.

WITH reference to the article by Pól Ó Conghaile (Irish Examiner, September 26), there is more than one exception to the fact that Elizabeth St Leger was the only lady freemason ever admitted.