Council pays €170k to boy hit by truck

Skibbereen Town Council paid €170,000 yesterday to a boy who sustained a serious injury to his left foot when he was struck by a council truck near his home.

Counsel Lorraine O’Sullivan said the council consented to judgment of €170,000 and said liability was very strongly an issue in the case before the High Court sitting in Cork.

Siobhán Lankford, counsel for the plaintiff, then told Mr Justice Michael Hanna the plaintiff’s lawyers were recommending acceptance of the settlement offer.