Pensioner awarded €137k after breaking hip in store fall

A pensioner who went to buy a waterproof gazebo to place over her cake stall at a farmers market broke her hip in a fall at Dunnes Stores. Yesterday she was awarded €137,000 compensation at the High Court in Cork.

Bernadette O’Leary, aged 77, of Cross Road House, Ahaliskey, Ballinascarthy, Clonakilty, said she was in a lot of pain after the accident and had spent 48 hours on a hospital trolley.

The accident happened at Dunnes Stores in Clonakilty on July 2, 2013. Mrs O’Leary said she was looking for a waterproof canopy for her stall of homemade cakes and other foods, which she sells at the Clonakilty farmers market on Fridays.