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Sat 11 Nov 2002Witness says woman seeking damages told him house was going to fall downThe former partner of a woman who has taken an action for damages over the building of a house in Co Offaly, which has been condemned as unsafe, gave evidence in the High Court yesterday. He told the court that, when he returned from a weekend away in July 1997, the woman told him the house was going to "fall down".Mr Jim Rawson said Ms Sarah Maria Leahy told him she had an engineer in to look at the house, where they were then living. She read out a list of things about the house but there were so many "it was a blur".