A GOLD Coast unit assistant is suing a television company for more than $325,000 after allegedly rolling his ankle while working on the set of a comedy series. In a statement of claim lodged in the Southport District Court last month, Timothy John O'Bank alleges he injured his right ankle in September 2014 while loading [...]
A young Irish woman from Bantry, Co. Cork, is currently recovering in a remote Thailand hospital following a "freak quad bike accident." A fundraising campaign has been launched by the family and friends of Ciara Twomey (22), to raise much needed funds for her treatment and with the hopes of transferring her back to Ireland. [...]
Former Top Gear co-host Richard Hammond has revealed that his leg was left slightly shorter due to a knee injury following a recent car crash. The 47-year-old presenter was filming a segment in an electric super car for the second season of The Grand Tour when the incident happened. Hammond was airlifted to hospital after the accident and underwent [...]
The sportswoman hit headlines on Thursday (29Jun17) when it emerged Jerome Barson had died on 22 June (17), two weeks after he was hospitalised with head trauma following a collision with Williams' SUV (Sports Utility Vehicle) in Palm Beach Gardens on 9 June (17). According to a police report, Williams was found to be "at [...]
Ms Gallagher was driving on the N59 Newport to Mulranny Road when her car veered on to the wrong side in to the path of a cement truck. An inquest jury, in 2011, returned a verdict that her death was accidental. Desmond O’Neill SC, for the family, told the court the matter had been settled [...]
Carrey's girlfriend, Irish make-up artist Cathriona White, took her own life in September 2015 with a cocktail of prescription drugs, aged 30. A year later her mother Brigid Sweetman launched legal proceedings against the 55-year old actor, claiming the Canadian star was responsible for her death as he provided White with the pills she overdosed [...]
This brings to €5.1m the total settlement in the case of Elaine Lennon. Mr Justice Peter Kelly noted Elaine Lennon, now 42, was a talented opera singer who was pursuing a masters in psychology when she suffered the injuries. A CT scan after her symptoms persisted indicated an abscess on her brain had burst. She [...]
A business partnership involving broadcaster Gay Byrne has settled its Commercial Court dispute against a financial fund over loan repayments in relation to an investment property worth an estimated €13.5m in central Dublin. The Firstwood Partnership had brought proceedings against the Launceston Property Finance concerning a property containing a block of offices, retail units and [...]
A woman who had a child after a botched sterilisation operation is appealing for weekly ACC compensation for the years she was unable to work while caring for him.The unnamed mother had the operation in 1998. She already had three children by different fathers, and a history of difficult relationships, terminated pregnancies and miscarriages. In 2006, when [...]
According to CEMA (European Agricultural Machinery Industry), a recent European study has found that more than four fifths (83%) of accidents that happen on public roads involving agricultural machinery can be attributed to just five major factors. The findings are the result of an analysis of accident data from Switzerland over a six-year period (2011-2016). [...]