Hill walker’s €40k award challenged in court

A woman with 40 years experience hill walking has told the High Court she was “black and blue on her right side” and in pain after gashing her knee on a nail after she fell on a rotting boardwalk on the Wicklow Way.

Teresa Wall said that after her fall her husband Damien had to “piggyback” her down the mountain because he was unable to get a mobile phone signal to call for help.

She said her foot had snagged in a hole in one of the old railway sleepers that made up a conservation boardwalk just below the JB Malone memorial on the Sally Gap to Djouce trail near Roundwood.