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Thu 05 May 2004Woman trapped in train for 2S hours gets €14,500A woman, trapped in a train for 2½ hours before being found by cleaners, has been awarded €14,500 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.Ms Margaret Heneghan, counsel for Ms Frances Larkin (22), said her client suffered from a number of disabilities, but had become acquainted with travelling unaccompanied on the DART daily to the Enable Ireland School at Sandymount, Dublin.