Documents under the Freedom of Information reveal just over €780,000 was paid out in 30 public liability claims against Kerry County Council in an 18-month period to the end of June last.

A 6-year-old boy who was injured when a part of a basketball unit fell on him in a Dublin creche two-and-a-half years ago has settled his High Court action for €120,000.

A 28-year-old man has claimed before the High Court that his epilepsy has "significantly worsened" as a result of been beaten "black and blue" by bouncers at a nightclub he had earlier been refused entry.

THE message needs to go out about a new-found confidence in Catholic education in this country, a clerical educationalist said yesterday.