Boy awarded €25k after scaffold fall

A 12-year-old schoolboy, who suffered injuries after he fell 12 feet to the ground from scaffolding, was yesterday awarded €25,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Counsel James O’Donnell told the court that on June 22, 2012, Alex Sheridan was playing with friends near the Hardwicke St, Dublin, apartment of his mother, Vicky Sheridan.

Mr O’Donnell said Alex and his friends managed to climb onto a wheelie bin and then hauled themselves over an eight feet high barrier into a construction site situated at Greenville St Flats.