‘Risk assessment needed for Ann Summers parties’

An engineer has told the High Court a “proper risk assessment” should be carried out in advance of throwing items in the air at Ann Summers lingerie parties in venues where alcohol is being served. He was not saying such parties should be banned, Barry Tennyson said.

Mr Tennyson was giving evidence in the continuing action by Sylvia Deehan, who has sued over injuries to her ribs allegedly suffered as a result of being shoved aside by another woman when an item, described as a ring that goes around “a certain part” of the male anatomy, was thrown into the air during an Ann Summers party at a Dublin pub.

The party was part of a ladies’ night at the pub, the highlight of which was a performance by the male strippers the “Hunks of Desire”, on January 21, 2011.