The husband of Galway Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames has been ordered to pay over €12,400 to an Oranmore tradesman for non-payment of work carried out at the home of the couple in Maree.

Tradesman Michael Allen brought a civil case against Michael Eames and his wife Fidelma Healy-Eames.

Mr. Allen had claimed that when additional costs were taken into account including work on the garage he was owed just under €23,000.

Judge Rory McCabe has ordered that Michael Eames pay €12,400 to Mr. Allen.

He dismissed the action against Fidelma Healy-Eames as the second named defendant in the case as he was satisfied she was not ‘intimately involved or even peripherally involved’.

He also dismissed a counter-claim that the work carried out was not up to standard.

Speaking to Galway Bay FM outside Galway Courthouse Senator Healy-Eames said she was satisfied with the ruling.