Three Dublin men, who claimed they had been wrongly accused of attempting to leave a restaurant without paying for their food, have each lost €75,000 claims for defamation of character and ordered to pay the restaurant’s legal bill.
Sir The residents of Lahardane, a rural village at the foot of Nephin mountain in north Mayo, revolted when they had their GP practice taken from them last year. With a population of just 178 recorded in the 2016 census, they challenged the might of the HSE and won the battle to have a new doctor installed in their health centre.