A pensioner who fell on an escalator at Dublin Airport has been awarded €40,000 by a High Court judge.

Three insurance companies have admitted breaking data protection laws by possessing personal information on 15 people which was obtained by a private detective from a leak in the Department of Social Protection.

LEADING greyhound trainer Pat Gordon has decided to emigrate to Australia with his family and expects to depart in the new two months.

IN evidence to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee, Professor Brendan Drumm, chief executive of the HSE, last week stated: “The high prevalence of MRSA on our streets, as we speak, related to antibiotic use over the years.”

A RETIRED consultant who performed a sterilisation procedure on a mother of five, who later gave birth to two more children, told the High Court yesterday that, at the time he had completed the operation, he was satisfied that it had achieved its objective.