€810k awarded to Cork family over fatal tree-felling incident

Almost €810,000 was awarded yesterday to the family of a Cork County Council workman who was killed during tree felling in November 2012.

The family of the late Michael O’Donovan, aged 44, from Aghabullogue, Co Cork, and an employee of the council, brought a case for compensation to the High Court in Cork arising out of his death while working on a compound off Carr’s Hill, Douglas.

Mr Justice Robert Eagar said, at the outset of his judgment of the civil case which commenced on Monday, “the court would like to extend its sympathies to Mrs O’Donovan and her three children on the loss of her husband and the children’s father”.