Woman, sacked for refusing to allow customer return Christmas lights, awarded €21,000.

A SHOP ASSISTANT, who refused to engage with a customer returning some Christmas lights and who threatened to call the gardaí, has been awarded €20,000 at the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) after losing her job.

Live tapeworm 'still swimming' as it was pulled out of man's BRAIN.

A man with unexplained epilepsy was found to have a live 10cm tapeworm lodged in his brain that was 'still swimming'.The worm was discovered and removed by baffled doctors after the 26-year-old Chinese man suddenly developed epilepsy.

DANGEROUS HURRICANE FLORENCE

DANGEROUS HURRICANE FLORENCE is edging closer to delivering a powerful blow to the east coast of the United States, with forecasters warning of life-threatening rainfall and flooding even as it weakened to a Category 2 storm.

Motorist banned from driving and fined for parking in disabled bay.

A JUDGE HAS banned a motorist from driving for six months after the driver’s car was found parked in a disabled parking space in Ennis. At Ennis District Court, Judge Patrick Durcan said that Andrew Ryan of Bridge Court, Tulla Rd, Ennis “should be ashamed of himself” after his car was found parked in a disabled parking spot at the Parnell Street car park in Ennis on 5 May this year.

UK drivers may have to pay extra £5 to drive in EU as licence.

UK DRIVERS WHO want to drive in European countries after Brexit may have to get an additional permit added to their licences as their current ones “may no longer be valid by itself” after Britain leaves the EU. That permit will cost each driver £5.50, with the UK’s National Audit Office previously warning that anywhere between 100,000 and seven million international permits would need to be issued in the first year after Brexit if no deal is reached.