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Ah here.

CCTV footage (via the Vintners Federation of Ireland) from Judge Roy Beans, Newbridge, County Kildare on June 22 shows a person taking a shard of glass from beneath her top then placing it in her mouth before pretending to choke.

Vivian Carroll, owner of Judge Roy Beans says:

“Sadly, this is typical of what I and many other publicans face on a weekly basis. It’s clear from the footage that after hiding glass in her clothes this person then deliberately places it in her mouth. She told a member of staff the glass was in her food, which was obviously not the case.”

Maria?

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Mairead McGuinness (right) canvassing during the European Elections on May 25, 2014 with Avril Doyle and then Taoiseach Enda Kenny  a week after winning her claim against a car hire firm for an incident that left her with ‘severe and debilitating’ injuries

McGuinness, 60, told the Irish Mirror last night: “I don’t even remember the details of it and I’m not going to discuss it because I’ve given you my comment about the Vestager (EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager) issue.

“Look, I’m not going to discuss the case with you.”

The former RTE journalist and Ear to the Ground presenter claimed to have suffered “severe and debilitating injuries” according to court reports in the Irish Times at the time of the civil action in Castleblayney.

In the civil bill, issued on 14 May 2004, the MEP said her injuries were severe and debilitating and “interfered with her enjoyment of life and all routine and other activities”.

This was less than a month before she won a seat at the European Elections that June.

Compo claim Fine Gael MEP now says she forgets details of insurance settlement (Irish Mirror)

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Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey and the swings at the Dean Hotel, Dublin

“It would appear that 55 years after Belfast City Council unlocked the swings on Sundays, the proposition is being put in court that there should be supervisors for swings when adults are using them and that it is a matter of civil liability if there isn’t.

It does occur to me that we live in a strange world where civil liability can exist in such circumstances but maybe we are only hearing a portion of the evidence.

If the Government is serious about driving down the claims culture, we cannot stand idly by when adults lose their seat with two objects, one in each hand, and fall off a swing and then claim there should have been a supervisor looking after them.

Especially when it comes from somebody who has so much public influence and clearly influence over Government policy in these matters.”

Senator Michael McDowell yesterday.

Fine Gael TD criticised in Seanad over swing lawsuit (RTÉ)

A judge was shown this photo of Alan Farrell taken in  Skerries, County Dublin in August 2015 at a time when the Fine Gael TD claimed he suffered ‘painful neck and shoulder injuries from a car accident caused by a spider’ three months earlier.

Niall Gubbins writes:

The Indo normally give a lot of prominence (online especially) to “unusual” personal injury claims. However I can’t seem to find reference to this one online on any of the main news sites. Surely they’re not treating the claimant differently because of his job?

Judge shown snap of Fine Gael TD Alan Farrell up ladder with poster of himself before he brands his €15k prang injury case ‘unusual’ (The Irish Sun)