Trainer told to pay €77k to injured employee

A Cork racehorse trainer has been ordered to pay over €77,000 in damages to an employee as a result of serious injuries sustained in fall from a horse at his stables.

The High Court ruled that Terence O’Brien, a racehorse trainer based at Woodstock, Carrigtwohill, was liable for the accident which resulted in his head lad, Niall Healy, being thrown from a national hunt racehorse he was exercising.