{"id":156677,"date":"2025-11-01T07:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156677\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T07:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:04:18","slug":"case-taken-by-tralee-mans-widow-settled-in-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156677\/","title":{"rendered":"Case taken by Tralee man&#8217;s widow settled in High Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A personal injury case taken by the widow of a Tralee man who was killed after being struck by a taxi has been settled in the High Court.<\/p>\n<p>Consultant psychiatrist Martin Lawlor died following the collision near Cork Airport on December 15th, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He had been walking home from a Christmas party.<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Helen Murphy Lawlor, took the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/courtandcrime\/arid-41733882.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">case<\/a> against the taxi driver who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/court-of-appeal-halves-jail-term-given-to-taxi-driver-who-left-scene-of-fatal-crash-236962\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">received a prison sentence<\/a> for the hit-and-run.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, Denis McSweeney of Pouladuff Road, Cork city, died last year.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Irish Examiner<\/a> reports that the High Court ordered the agreed settlement and made an order for the plaintiff\u2019s costs with damages to be agreed.<\/p>\n<p>The court substituted Axa Insurance in place of Mr McSweeney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A personal injury case taken by the widow of a Tralee man who was killed after being struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,91426],"class_list":{"0":"post-156677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-tralee-high-court"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115473171461060326","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}