Ice on the Tracks

A Co Meath woman who slipped in icy conditions at Connolly Station in 2010 has been awarded € 50, 000 in Dublin High Court.

Mother-of-two Ciara Morgan explained in court what sounded like a comedy of errors which for her was anything but a laughing matter. She was left in crutches for 8 weeks. She told the court that a rail workers who came to her assistance placed her in a shopping trolley. 'He tried to lift me and then got a trolley and put me in the baby seat with my legs over the trolley handle, but the trolley went over.'

Last Train leaves Harcourt Station on 31 December 1958 before the station closed down.

 

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Right to die case fails

Dublin High Court was in recent months the site of a pioneering legal battle where the applicant if successful would have won the legal right to assisted suicide.  However, Marie Fleming yesterday lost her fight.

Totally paralysed, the 59 year old former university lecturer who suffers from multiple sclerosis had petitioned the court on the grounds that her condition was was both unbearable and incurable.

The President of the High Court, Judge Nicholas Kearns, in his judgement said; 'It would be impossible to ensure the aged, disabled, poor, unwanted, rejected would not avail of this option to avoid a sense being a burden on their families and society.'

Increasingly the courts in Britain and elsewhere are being asked to adjudicate on the question of whether the right to die should be enshined in law. A number of European societies as well as two US states allow some form of assisted suicide.

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Mella Carroll QC: the first woman in the history of the state to be appointed as a judge to the High Court

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