An Bord Pleanála’s decision to give the go-ahead for the construction of an electricity generating biogas facility in Co Meath is to be challenged in the High Court.

A man who slipped on algae on the steps of a pier as he was about to go for a swim has been awarded €59,000 in High Court damages.

AN POST has been ordered to pay a former employee more than €70,000 compensation for preventing him applying for a job because he was over 60.