€25k after slip on pigeon poo

A 25-year-old bar assistant who slipped on pigeon faeces at the open-air restaurant in which she worked at Dublin’s Heuston Rail Station has been awarded almost €25,000 damages against CIÉ.

Mr Justice Raymond Groarke, heard Leann Walsh tended table on the decking outside the Heuston Station Refreshment Rooms and would often have to shoo away pigeons.

Barrister Karl Finnegan, for Ms Walsh, told the circuit civil court she had been working outdoors on May 15, 2013, when she stepped on pigeon faeces and her right leg went from under her.