Boy who cut leg on broken glass loses €38k claim

A 14-year-old schoolboy, who lacerated his leg on a broken bottle while playing football in “knee-high” grass on a common area near his home, has lost a €38,000 personal injury claim against a housing association.

Judge Jacqueline Linnane said in the Circuit Civil Court that if the grass was as long as described to the court by the boy’s parents she wondered how children could even see a football in it.

Owen Jones, through his mother Simone Jones, sued housing agency Respond, of Airmount, Dominick Place, Waterford. Ms Jones, of Ard Mor Court, Tallaght, Dublin, told Judge Linnane that in September 2010 her son had fallen on a broken bottle concealed in the grass.