Children of man gunned down in Cork lose High Court challenge over compensation

The legal challenge was over a refusal by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal to compensate them for Eddie Cummins' death

The judge said while she extended sympathy to the blameless children of the victim "who died in a cowardly and heartless act at the very doorstep of his home”, she could not agree that the dependents of a criminal who probably died as a result of his criminality should be compensated by the State for that injury to him. File picture

A challenge brought by the children of a man gunned down on his doorstep in Ballincollig, Co Cork, 11 years ago has been dismissed by the High Court.

The legal challenge was over a refusal by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal to compensate them for the death.