Postman gets €30k damages for motorbike fall caused by dog

The High Court has awarded €32,000 to a part time postman who sustained serious head injures as a result of being thrown from his motorbike after a dog ran in front of him.

Clive Heavey (aged 37) sustained two fractures to his skull and was knocked unconscious after a dog, a cross breed between a Labrador and an Alsatian named "BA", ran onto the road in front of him on March 23, 1998 at the Grangegeeth Public House in Co Meath.