Man gets €10k after chair breaks under him

A 64-year-old man has been awarded €10,000 in compensation for a back injury he suffered when a front leg broke off the chair he was sitting on.

Judge David Riordan made the award to Steven Davies of Glenryan Road, off Blarney Street, Cork, against Moffett & Sons Ltd, trading as Balmoral Furniture, of Seymore Hill industrial estate, Dunmurry, Belfast, at Cork Circuit Court.

Defence barrister Paddy O’Neill submitted the case should be dismissed because of what he described as exaggerated evidence, but the plaintiff’s barrister, Cian O’Mahony, argued there was no false or misleading evidence.