Council defence ‘adds insult to injury’
The family of the late Michael O’Donovan, aged 44, a father of three from Aghabullogue, Co Cork, and an employee of Cork County Council, brought a case for compensation yesterday arising out of his death while working on a compound off Carr’s Hill, Douglas, in November 2012.
Dr John O’Mahony, senior counsel for the plaintiffs, opened the case before Mr Justice Robert Eagar at the High Court in Cork and criticised the manner in which the local authority was defending the civil action, particularly as it had pleaded guilty in a criminal court to a health-and-safety offence and been fined €48,000.
