Dublin City Council to be sentenced for safety breaches

Dublin City Council is to be sentenced at the Circuit Criminal Court for breaching provisions of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 1989 arising out of an excavation project near the city centre.

Mr Eugene O'Reilly, senior engineer, pleaded guilty on behalf of the Council to failing to take measures to ensure the site was safe by failing to put in place "an adequate exclusion zone" around the excavation works at Lower Mount Street, on June 9, 2003.