Top step moved, claims woman who fell down stairs

The top step of a stairs in a local authority house “moved” as a woman stood on it, causing her to fall down the stairs on her back and fracture two vertebrae in her neck.

That was the claim made yesterday in a High Court case against Cork City Council.

Nicola Healy brought an action against the local authority as a result of the injury she sustained at her home on Boyce’s St on May 18, 2013.