‘If only I could ban high heels...’

A High Court judge has said he might be “serving womankind” if he could stop people wearing high heels.

Mr Justice Michael Hanna was speaking during a case in which a woman sued Dublin City Council after breaking her ankle in a fall she claimed was caused by a broken pavement outside a nightclub. The council denied liability.

Alison Boylan, aged 35, a mother of five from Saggart Lakes, Saggart, Co Dublin, had been wearing high-heeled shoes she bought the day of her accident which were shown to the judge.