A 12 YEAR OLD traveller, injured while leaving his campsite to go to the toilet, has been awarded £10,000 damages against South Dublin County Council.
Mr Ray Boland, counsel for Martin Ward of Bawnogue, Clondalkin, told Judge Harvey Kenny in the Circuit Civil Court that toilet facilities were inadequate at the campsite in November 1994.
"In order to seek privacy, Martin, who was then only 10, had to climb across an embankment." But he severely lacerated his left hand on a broken porcelain toilet bowl partially buried there.
Mr Boland said Martin was unable to return to his hobby of boxing because he was unable to make a fist of his injured hand. He still suffered pins and needles in his thumb and index finger.
Judge Kenny approved a £10,000 settlement with costs offered by South Dublin County Council.