Woman awarded €6k over accident

A judge, while refusing to accept a Traveller woman’s pain and injury as she described them in court, said she was entitled to modest damages arising from an accident involving her husband’s driving.

Mr Justice Raymond Groarke said in the Circuit Civil Court that he did not believe Martina Ward had mounted a purposeful effort to effect a miscarriage of justice or attempt some type of fraud.

He told barrister Paul McMorrow, counsel for the Zurich Insurance Company, that while he had identified a number of weaknesses in Ms Ward’s case, the court accepted she had suffered some degree of injury.