A hospital has lost, by a four to one majority, a Supreme Court appeal aimed at preventing a man suing it for damages over allegedly contracting a severe MRSA infection during surgery.

A judge has commended the “swift action” of the gardaí in preventing an altercation escalating further between neighbours.

A man who claimed a neighbour of his parents came into their garden and attacked him with a hurley, told a judge “it was like something out of Braveheart”.