This is too high. Families are grieving He said working in a hurry is a major factor in farm accidents, particularly in spring when the workload increases dramatically. “Farmers are under increased work pressure, as the dairy sector has expanded, while drystock farmers are availing of off-farm employment with the upturn in the economy,” McNamara [...]
David Hasselhoff claims he's busted his ex-wife lying about being too injured to get a job. The Hoff filed docs in his spousal support battle with Pamela Bach, and says her claim that a 2003 motorcycle accident is limiting her ability to find work is total BS. According to the docs, Pamela's been posting tons of [...]
The former boyfriend of Olivia Newton-John has reportedly been discovered after going missing 12 years ago. Patrick McDermott, an American cameraman of Korean descent who was the on and off boyfriend of Olivia Newton-John, is alive and well in a small town in Mexico, according to New Idea. Mr McDermott disappeared in 2005 while on [...]
A garda, who suffered internal injuries when she was punched and kicked while making an arrest, was today awarded more than €36,000 compensation in the High Court. Mr Justice Bernard Barton said that Garda Nicola Gorman had been kicked and punched in the ribs, chest and lower back and wrenched her neck when her hair [...]
The High Court has approved a €7.5 million settlement for a boy who suffered a brain injury after his pregnant mother was thrown from a car driven by an uninsured driver in a road accident. The accident happened just a few days before the woman’s due date, when she was on the way to have [...]
A judge has turned down as inadequate a €25,000 settlement offer A judge has turned down as inadequate a €25,000 settlement offer to a five-year-old boy who lacerated one of his eyebrows in a fall at a Co Dublin crèche. Samantha Cruess Callaghan, counsel for the young boy, told the Circuit Civil Court that he, [...]
A woman who broke her wrist when she allegedly tripped on stairs at the well known Lillie's Bordello night club in Dublin has settled her High Court action. Rachael Sheridan told the court she was leaving the nightclub four years ago at around 3am when her heel got caught and she fell to the bottom [...]
Czech Republic air accident authorities have confirmed that they are investigating the crash which left two Laois men critically injured. In a statement the Air Accident Investigation Institute confirmed to the Leinster Express that on Tuesday, October 24 at approximately 10:43 UTC, the Evektor-Eurostar 97 was found near the village of Nižkov. Its two occupants had suffered [...]
A third State agency will investigate the loss of four air crew in the Irish Coast Guard Rescue 116 helicopter crash off the north Co Mayo coast in March. The Health and Safety Authority is now working with An Garda Síochána on a joint investigation that will result in a file being forwarded to the Director of Public [...]
The driver of a car which was involved in a collision which killed himself and another driver was four and a half times over the legal drink driving limit, an inquest has heard. Kevin McClintock (32) of Dundrean Park Galliagh, Derry and Orla O’Reilly (34) of Meadow Gate House, Carnamoyle, Muff died in a head-on [...]