€90k for elderly woman after fall

An 82-year-old woman who fell on an escalator at Connolly Station, Dublin, when she got on it because the lift out was of order has settled her High Court action for €90,000.

Christina Flood, the High Court heard, was being wheeled in a wheelchair by her son and was on the way back from a trip to Howth when she fell at Connolly Station after her son helped her on the escalator.

On the second day of the action yesterday, Mr Justice Bernard Barton approved the €90,000 settlement on behalf of Mrs Flood who suffered rib fractures and a collapsed lung in the fall.