Pubs told by jury: Take better care of clients

PUBS should take their duty of care towards their clients more seriously, the jury recommended at an inquest into the death of a teenager who died after he was struck by a car after being sent out of a nightclub because he was intoxicated.

Mark David Flood, a 19-year-old student, of Castleknock Park, Dublin, was out with work colleagues for a post-Christmas party on Saturday, January 19, last.

The group, from the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre where Mr Flood had a part-time job, met in the Grasshopper Pub, Clonee, Co Meath, at 9.30pm and went to the Vortex nightclub at the County Club, Dunshaughlin, a short time before midnight.