A couple, both of whom claimed to have developed a mental adjustment disorder after their 12-year-old daughter’s arm was pricked by a pin in a hotel bed, have been awarded €18,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

The Quinns of Cavan/Fermanagh may not like the comparisons drawn between themselves and the fictional Ewings of Dallas.

The trial of a man accused of murdering his wife in Castleknock in August 2007 has heard that problems in their marriage began in June of that year and that she had been writing letters to a man in England.