Man injured after fall from hotel window

A man on a Valentine’s weekend at a Kinsale hotel fell 8.2 metres from a third-floor bedroom window as he tried to flick ash from his cigarette, he claimed before the High Court yesterday.

Jason Platt, who said he was flicking the ash away because he was in a no-smoking bedroom, has sued in the High Court claiming he sustained life-changing injuries.

Mr Platt from Liverpool had travelled to Kinsale for a Valentine’s weekend and he and his partner Christine McKenna were staying at the Old Bank House, Pearse Street, Kinsale when he claims the accident took place on February 15, 2009.