Castle owner ‘using mental reservation’

A High Court judge warned the owner of the oldest inhabited castle in Ireland she was using something akin to “mental reservation”, identified by the commission into the Dublin Archdioceses, in her evidence against the ESB.

Mr Justice Henry Abbott gave this warning to the plaintiff, Elaine Rhys-Davies, aged 61, of Ballea Castle in Carrigaline, Co Cork, at the High Court sitting in Cork yesterday.

Mrs Rhys-Davies is bringing a case arising out of injuries she suffered on June 1, 2012, when both of her feet went into a broken manhole, cutting her legs and grazing her hands. She said the most serious injuries were to her neck and left shoulder.