Eight Polish people who were passengers in two cars that collided in north Dublin on December 27th lodged personal injury claims totalling nearly €0.5 million, the Circuit Civil Court heard. Dealing with three of the cases, Mr Justice Raymond Groake has awarded three claimants €10,000 each.
37-year-old Ruth Morrissey will return to the High Court in the coming weeks after bringing legal action against the HSE and two laboratories last July for allegedly misreading two of her cervical smear slides.
Schoolchildren from Blakestown Community School in Dublin have been treated for minor injuries and taken to hospital following a collision between a single decker school bus and a bridge on Tuesday morning.
High Court judge, Mr Justice Kevin Cross, has ruled there was no negligence by an orthopaedic surgeon in his treatment of a patient who claimed he suffered paralysis in his right leg and severe pain as a result of undergoing a spinal fusion procedure.
A recent study published in the BMJ Paediatrics Open journal found a connection between stricter road traffic laws following several national road safety interventions and a fall in child deaths on Irish roads over the past 25 years.
