An RTE newsreader, Ms Emer O'Kelly, has settled a £30,000 personal injuries claim against the station for an undisclosed amount. Ms O'Kelly, a journalist, of Lombard Street West, Dublin, had claimed she received an electrical shock, was thrown from her chair and knocked unconscious while reading the news on May 26th 1993.
Yesterday Mr Gerry Danaher, counsel for Ms O'Kelly, told Judge Esmonde Smyth in the Circuit Civil Court the action had been settled and could be struck out with an order for costs to the plaintiff.