Man awarded €7,500 after fall caused by disappearing bollard

A man sat on a bollard during a shopping trip to Cork City only to find it disappear into the ground without warning, throwing him on to his back.

Harry Peglar’s injuries resulted in a €7,500 award against Cork City Council yesterday.

“I sat on the bollard [for] a couple of minutes and I didn’t know no more and I was on the flat of my back. Three girls saw what happened and they were sniggering. I was ashamed of my life,” Mr Peglar, from Mulgrave Road, Cork, said during his claim for compensation at Cork Circuit Court against the local authority.