Woman knocked over by bouncers

A 36-year-old woman who was knocked down stairs as bouncers put an unruly patron out of a pub claimed €750,000 for future loss of earnings.

But, yesterday, a High Court judge did not relate her most serious complaints to the fall. Mr Justice Michael Twomey awarded Helen Boland of Midleton, Co Cork, over €25,000 for general damages for neck and ankle injuries and over €20,000 special damages making a total of over €46,000.

However, he did not attribute the plaintiff’s serious back injury or depression to the fall.