Boy got detergent with chips in Dublin hotel

A 13-year-old boy who was served detergent with chips instead of vinegar at a New Year’s Eve family dinner in a Co Dublin hotel has been awarded a €4,000 settlement in the Circuit Civil Court.

Barrister Ray Delahunt told the court that on December 31, 2012, Raymond Allen was with his parents Owen Mellon and Svetlana Allen at the Radisson Blu St Helen’s Hotel, Stillorgan, Blackrock, when the incident happened. The court heard the family, with a previous address at Riverwood Crescent, Castleknock, Dublin, and who now live in Australia, had been eating chips with a meal when they realised a vinegar jug inadvertently contained detergent.

Mr Delahunt said Raymond had suffered stomach upset, diarrhoea, and psychological trauma following the incident and had been unable to eat for two days.