Council faces paying €50m damages to company

LIMERICK City Council faces financial ruin after losing a High Court bid to save it from having to pay damages of around €50 million to a construction company.

An arbitrator ruled last June that Uniform Construction was wrongly fired by the council from Limerick's €140m Main Drainage scheme four years ago.

In a last ditch effort, the council went to the High Court. But the court this week refused to interfere in the arbitrator's award.