A 21-year-old left with a brain injury after he was struck on the head with a mobile phone six years ago was yesterday awarded €150,000 damages in the High Court.

A Kildare woman who managed a city centre brothel which had an estimated annual turnover of €4 m has been jailed for one year by Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

I REFER to your excellent feature article (Irish Examiner July, 18 on the problems that arise when trying to devise a fair and equitable system of compensating babies and their families injured due to negligence at birth.