Woman injured at Ann Summers party loses appeal

A High Court judge yesterday said he accepted a woman’s version of what happened at an Ann Summers lingerie party in a Dublin pub, but she was not entitled to damages.

Mr Justice Max Barrett dismissed Sylvia Deehan’s damages claim for injuries she said she sustained after being knocked down at an Ann Summers lingerie party held at the Lough Inn, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin, on January 21, 2011.

Ruling Ms Deehan was not entitled to recover damages against the owners of the pub, the judge said Ms Deehan was a decent woman who was entitled to sympathy for the injuries she suffered following her fall. He accepted her version of events of what happened in the pub that night as “substantively true”.