Man claims hopes of career in football ended by fall

A 22-year-old man who claimed his aspiring football career was cut short after he fell on a footpath has sued for damages in the High Court.

Ryan Byrne was a semi- professional footballer with St Patrick’s Athletics reserves when he fell on a tarmac area hurting his ankle, leg, and back.

His foot got caught in a pothole or a depression in the tarmac where reinstatement works had previously taken place, he claimed.