Tim Healy

4 days ago | sundayworld.com | Tim Healy

'wholly inadequate' | It wasn’t until the boy was ten that hearing aids to amplify sound were appropriately fitted and verified. A man whose hearing loss was not fully diagnosed or treated for ten years as a child has settled a High Court action against the HSE for €800,000. Padraig Byrne, who has Down syndrome, got his first hearing assessment when he was 17 months old.

4 days ago | sundayworld.com | Tim Healy

head pain | Zofia Adamczyk was a two-year-old toddler when the confessional door fell on her. A girl who was knocked down and hit her head when the door of a church confession box fell on her during mass has settled a High Court action for €25,000. Zofia Adamczyk was a two-year-old toddler when the confessional door, which it was claimed was unhinged, fell on her, trapping her underneath.

6 days ago | independent.ie | Tim Healy

An expert witness for Mr Adams’s legal team said the BBC presented no secondary source, documentation or verifying evidence to support the “serious, criminal” allegation made in the programme against Mr Adams that he had ordered the killing of British agent Denis Donaldson in 2006 The BBC had “multiple, authoritative, credible, confidential” sources corroborating information provided by an anonymous contributor to a documentary at the centre of a defamation action brought by Gerry Adams,...

6 days ago | independent.ie | Tim Healy

Bitter dispute between Claddagh ring brothers back in court over ownership of €969,000 Spanish villaA Claddagh ring. Stock image: GettyA bitter dispute between two brothers in the family behind the business which makes world famous Claddagh rings has flared up again in a new row over ownership of a Spanish villa worth €969,000, the High Court heard. Philip and Andrew Fried, who were shareholders of Claddagh Jewellers Ltd, settled a High Court dispute over the business in December 2020.

6 days ago | independent.ie | Tim Healy

€800,000 HSE settlement for man with Down syndrome over delay to hearing loss diagnosis as a childA man whose hearing loss was not fully diagnosed or treated for ten years as a child has settled a High Court action against the HSE for €800,000. Padraig Byrne, who has Down syndrome, got his first hearing assessment when he was 17 months old.