A 37-year-old housewife, who claimed her enjoyment of her daughter’s First Holy Communion was ruined after a salon hair colour treatment burned her scalp, has been awarded €12,500 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

A judge today told a 16-year-old suspected heroin dealer who complained about conditions in St Patrick’s Institution that “jail is not Butlins”.

A man is recovering in hospital today after being shot in the Ronanstown area of Dublin this morning.