Woman sues school over hockey injury to ankle

A woman who slipped and hurt her ankle three years ago when she went to retrieve a hockey ball that had gone out of play has sued in the High Court for damages.

Ailbhe Cole was a Leaving Cert student at Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny, Killiney, Dublin, and was training and playing hockey, it is alleged, in near darkness after school on a winter’s evening when the accident happened.

Ms Cole, who is now studying pharmacology at University College Dublin, said the students were playing hockey on a grit surface and there was no flood-lighting at the pitch.