€20,000 for boy who walked into bollard

A seven-year-old boy who lacerated his left eyebrow when his head hit a bollard while walking with his mum at Blanchardstown Shopping Centre has been awarded €20,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Grainne Berkery, counsel for Conor Askin, who is now 13, said the boy’s claim was based on the inadequacy of lighting at a taxi rank on the south side of the centre where the bollard was situated alongside a footpath.