Postman awarded €16,000 for big-toe injury

A judge, who today awarded a postman and former Balbriggan town councillor €16,000 damages for an injured big toe, said he was not satisfied An Post had provided him with protective shoes.

Circuit Court president, Mr Justice Matthew Deery, said that when an engineer visited Balbriggan sorting office to investigate the accident he had found a number of workers who were not wearing obligatory steel toe-capped footwear.