A 74-year-old widow, who spent most of a sun holiday in her hotel bedroom after having been injured when a sun lounger collapsed underneath her, has been awarded €38,000 damages against the hotel.

THE High Court ordered members of a cab drivers’ organisation to stop occupying the offices of the taxi regulator.

FORMER CRH chief executive Tony Barry told the Moriarty Tribunal yesterday he was oblivious of the financial relationship between the group’s deceased chairman, Des Traynor, and former Taoiseach Charles Haughey.