She was arrested following the discovery of a new born baby with multiple stab wounds, in what became known as the Kerry babies case.
It's expected Joanne Hayes, who was wrongly accused of murdering a baby found on a beach in Co. Kerry in 1984, will share damages worth 2.5 million euro, along with her siblings and her daughter.
All charges were dropped in October 1984, and the family last year launched legal proceedings against the State, seeking the High Court to declare all findings of wrongdoing by a tribunal as unfounded and incorrect.
Journalist Michael O'Regan covered the story, and says there are many questions about the Gardaí's handling of the case:
"How did members of the family Sign detailed confessions to a murder they couldn't possibly have committed- the blood groups show that. The Gardaí by the way, at the time, introduced the now well known 'Superfecundation theory' which was that you could have given birth to twins, with two different fathers."
