€28,000 award for woman who fell off toilet

A 61-year-old carer who was injured when she fell off the toilet of her Shankill, Co Dublin, home, has been awarded almost €28,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Judge Jacqueline Linnane said that Isabela O’Sullivan got such a fright when a wall tile fell down as she sat on the toilet that she fell forward, injuring her right knee.

Barrister William Martin Smith told the court that Ms O’Sullivan, only weeks before the September 2011 accident, had her bathroom re-tiled following a fire at her house in Rathsallagh Grove, Shankill.