Senator's husband ordered to pay €12,400 for work done on home

The husband of Galway senator Fidelma Healy Eames has been ordered to pay over €12,400 to an Oranmore tradesman for non-payment of work carried out at the couple's home in Maree.

Oranmore tradesman Michael Allen brought a civil case against Michael Eames and his wife Fidelma Healy Eames.

Mr Allen had claimed that when additional costs were taken into account including work on the garage, he was owed just under €23,000.

Judge Rory McCabe has ordered that Michael Eames pay €12,400 to Mr Allen , and dismissed the action

against Fidelma Healy Eames as the second named defendant in the case as he was satisfied she was not "intimately involved or even peripherally involved".

He also dismissed a counter claim that the work carried out was not up to standard.