A court has refused to order Dublin Corporation to pay £70,000 interest on a compensation award for damage to a Dublin department store caused by loyalist firebombs in 1992.
Guiney and Company Ltd., of Talbot Street, Dublin, had been awarded £213,000 by the High Court for damage to the store when firebombs exploded on March 29th, 1992.
In the Circuit Civil Court, Mr John Doherty, counsel for Dublin Corporation, said the company was seeking interest on the award backdated to 1992.
Judge James Carroll held that a decision of the Supreme Court in 1993, which ruled that Courts Act interest was not payable in respect of malicious injury claims, bound him and he refused the application.