Elaine Duggan explores the social phenomenon of the Ford crates which have remained part of the country’s landscape.

An 83-year-old man yanked a gas pipe from a wall inside his house causing an explosion in which he was burned. And although his actions had been described as “foolhardy” he was yesterday awarded €72,500 as a judge said Gas Networks Ireland had left “a primed bomb” in the house.

An 82-year-old man had a miraculous escape when he was blown out of his house by a gas explosion.