A seven-year-old boy, who five years ago lacerated his right wrist on broken glass at a local authority flats complex, has been awarded £40,000 damages against Dublin Corporation. Circuit Court President Mr Justice Esmond Smyth approved the offer made to Paul Phelan, of St Theresa's Gardens, Dublin.
Mr John Doherty, for the corporation, said the local authority was consenting to unlimited jurisdiction to a maximum of £40,000 to resolve the case. Mr Paul Burns, for the boy, said it was alleged that corporation workmen had left broken glass in the garden of one of the flats where the boy was playing.