The owners of a Kinsale hotel where a man claimed he fell from a third-floor window and ended up with life-changing injuries have applied to the High Court to have his action for damages dismissed.

The girlfriend of an Englishman who has sued claiming he suffered life-changing injuries when he fell out of a hotel window in Kinsale yesterday told the High Court it was not true to say that on the night she and Jason Platt were arguing and that he threatened to jump.

An Englishman who has sued a Kinsale hotel, claiming he fell 8m from a third floor bedroom window, yesterday denied in the High Court he had jumped after a row with his girlfriend.

A man on a Valentine’s weekend at a Kinsale hotel fell 8.2 metres from a third-floor bedroom window as he tried to flick ash from his cigarette, he claimed before the High Court yesterday.