Woman ‘was dropped on head’ in nightclub
Tasha Fitzsimons, aged 27, says she suffered head and arm injuries when the man dropped her on the floor of Barcode Nightclub, Clontarf, Dublin, on December 22, 2008.
Ms Fitzsimons, of Glentworth Park, Ard na Greine, Malahide Rd, Dublin, is suing Templeville Developments, trading as Barcode, which denies claims it was negligent, including by allowing a drunk man into the club and continuing to serve him alcohol.
Ms Fitzsimons claims there was a failure to properly supervise the club and that it did not have enough security staff on that night.
The defendant says the incident as described by Ms Fitzsimons did not happen. It says there was horseplay between the man and Ms Fitzsimons, who, it is claimed, got up on the man’s back at one stage. She denies this.
Ms Fitzsimons claims the man had been drinking since lunchtime that day — which is denied — and says he should not have been admitted to the club.
The court heard Ms Fitzsimons did not know the man but her sister Donna, who was with her that night, knew the man’s male friend, who was also at the club.
Ms Fitzsimons told the court she, Donna, and a friend had been at the bar when the man started pestering her. They moved away but he followed them and started putting his hands on her. This is when the alleged incident occurred.
She was bleeding heavily after she hit the floor and was taken to hospital, where she required sutures (stitches) to her forehead and treatment for a broken radial bone in her left hand.
Ms Fitzsimons denied, under cross-examination, that it was she who climbed up on the man’s back or that the incident occurred as a result of her own actions.
Ciara Forbes, who was at the club with another group on the night in question, said she noticed the man grabbing Ms Fitzsimons around the waist and going down towards her thigh. The next time she looked, she saw Ms Fitzsimons on the floor “with blood everywhere”.
The case continues.
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