€20k for cut hand in pub

A 31-year-old painter and decorator, who cut his left hand on a piece of glass in a Dublin sports bar after watching the 2011 All Ireland football final, has been awarded €20,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

David O’Keeffe told the court that in September 2011, he had been, along with a large group of friends and his wife Emma, at Woolshed Baa & Grill, Parnell St, celebrating Dublin GAA team’s victory over Kerry.

O’Keeffe said the bar was at its maximum capacity as it was packed with patrons and uncollected glasses were being stacked up. He had slipped on a wet floor as he went to the toilet and fell backwards, his hand was lacerated by a piece of glass on the floor.