Ex-Miss Ireland awarded €12k for ankle injury

Former Miss Ireland Nuala Holloway, who injured her left ankle in a trip and fall at Superquinn Shopping Centre, Blackrock, five years ago, has been awar-ded €12,000 damages.

Ms Holloway Casey, aged 60, of Rowanbyrn, Blackrock, Dublin, told Judge Barry Hickson in the Circuit Civil Court that she still suffered intermittent pain from the injury, which had been exacerbated by a second fall in the same store in Feb 2009.

The mother of two, a former model, artist, and language teacher at St Killian’s German School, Dublin, said that on Dec 21, 2007, her high heel had caught in a hole at the entrance to a descending travelator.