Man loses claim for wedding injuries

A man whose neck was slashed when a fight erupted at a wedding has lost a legal action for damages against the hotel where the function took place.

Thomas Connors, aged 22, of The Paddocks, Kilcock, Co Kildare, was 14 when he attended a cousin’s wedding at the Lumville House Hotel in the Curragh, Co Kildare, where he was attacked in a “stampede” of people trying to get out of a function room where a free-for-all broke out, the High Court heard.

He sued hotel proprietor Michael Lambe over the incident on November 27, 2006, which he said left him with a scar on the back of his neck and led to him having nightmares for two years.