€75,000 fingertip award overturned

A Cork pub has won its appeal over an award of €75,000 to a woman who had a fingertip severed when it got caught in an automatic door in the bar.

From infancy, we are warned of the risk of injury from closing doors and Saundra O’Flynn was the “author of her own misfortune”, said Ms Justice Mary Irvine.

There was no basis for the High Court finding the Oliver Plunkett pub in Cork was negligent because the automatic door was not set at the slowest speed possible, she said.