Singer takes damages action over electric shock

A part-time country and western singer who claims she has not returned to professional singing and had to cancel gigs after she was allegedly received an electric shock in a creche where she worked has brought an action for damages.

Lesley Anne Dawson told the High Court she felt a bang in her head and was thrown four or five feet backwards and hit a press after she put her hands into a sink to do washing up at Dolmen Nursery and Montessori School, Carlow town.

“I was shaking and vomiting. My heart was pounding... I did not know if I was going to live or die,” the mother of two told the court. She told Ms Justice Mary Irvine she continued to work on the day but rang her mother to say goodbye as she thought she was going to die.