Couple boarded up by council settle damages

A couple and their four- month-old baby, who were mistakenly boarded up in their home by council workmen, have settled a €76,000 claim for damages for an undisclosed sum.

Tristan Ua Ceithearnaigh, 46, and his partner, Elisa Udtohan, 25, claimed they had been sitting in their home at 42 Eugene St, Dublin 8, on Dec 14, 2010, when corrugated iron sheets were attached with six-inch nails to their front door and window.

Barrister Bernard McCabe told Judge Gerard Griffin in the Circuit Civil Court yesterday that Mr Ua Ceithearnaigh and Ms Udtohan, now of The Mews, Collegeland, Saggart, Co Dublin, had reached settlements in their damages claims for €38,000 each.