Couple had to sleep in coats on €6k honeymoon

Miranda Molloy and her husband Paul Dowling had to sleep for three nights in jackets and tracksuits just to keep warm on their honeymoon, a judge has heard.

Ex-bank official Miranda told Judge Jacqueline Linnane in the Circuit Civil Court yesterday that she and Paul had been left devastated with the €5,700 three-week “trip of a lifetime” to South Africa. She said the tent they got on a safari had been a luxury compared to the dark, dirty, damp rooms provided for them on what had been booked and paid for as a dream experience.

Barrister Daithi MacCarthaigh told the court that Miranda and Paul, a plumber, of Riverside Road, Clonshaugh, Dublin, had stipulated five-star accommodation everywhere they would visit on their Jun 2009 honeymoon.