Boy, 6, attacked by Jack Russell awarded €105k

A six-year-old boy was savagely attacked by a Jack Russell terrier and left with facial scarring and has now been awarded just over €100,000 at the High Court in Cork.

John O’Mahony, counsel for the young plaintiff, told the court yesterday: “Very simply, what happened here is he was attacked by a Jack Russell dog, very frighteningly so. Thanks be to God he has improved tremendously.

“There were two aspects to this, the attack by the dog and the hospital procedures which were frightening in themselves for a six-and-a-half-year-old boy.”