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Fri 01 Jan 2007Court action over broadcaster's deathThe family of the late RTÉ presenter Uaneen Fitzsimons has succeeded in its High Court action for damages arising from the 29-year-old broadcaster's death in a crash in Co Laois seven years ago.The action was brought by Sharon McKee, a schoolteacher and sister of Ms Fitzsimons, on behalf of her family, against Woodside Haulage Ltd, the company that owned the articulated lorry which was involved in a collision with the car in which Ms Fitzsimons was a passenger near Borris-in-Ossory just after 1pm on November 22nd, 2000.