Settlement cut after Road Traffic Accident

A young mother of two has had a €190,500 damages award over injuries sustained in a road crash cut by 40 per cent after a judge found she travelled without a seatbelt and when she should have known it was “highly probable” the driver’s ability to drive was “seriously...

Settlement for Family of Murder Victim

Damages sought by family of the victim of a contract killing The bulk of the award — more than €720,000 — goes to the widow of Terence Madden, who Ms Justice Mary Irvine said was “ruthlessly and gratuitously gunned down” as he stepped into his car just feet from his...

Ballina woman suffered neck and shoulder injuries in collision

A Ballina woman suffered neck and shoulder injuries as a result of a low impact rear collision to her car, a sitting of Circuit Court has heard. As a result of the collision, Ms. Bernadette Maughan, 28 Roches Terrace, Ballina, took a case for a damages against the...

Euro 30,000 awarded to headbutt victim

Sligo Circuit Court heard how a young man was headbutted by another in the street in Sligo almost seven years ago, as a result of which he lost two front teeth. Patrick Joseph Maloney, Yeats Village, Ballinode, Sligo, brought the claim against Trevor Hunt, Floughenna,...

Woman sues over ‘dating agency hell’

A WOMAN WHO sued a dating agency for negligence, breach of duty and fraudulent misrepresentation had her case dismissed at a Donegal court yesterday. Ann-Marie McBrearty, 35, of Oldtown, Letterkenny, Co Donegal paid €600 to the Ballintra company the Happy Matchmaker...

Caroline McLaughlin acted for the Donegal Matchmaker Mary Mitchell

Disgruntled client loses her claim for damages against dating agency ‘The first man was shy, the second rude, the third desperate and the fourth was too enthusiastic’ A WOMAN who sought damages from a dating agency after she was “groped, assaulted...