'No cold bottles of liquor were used in the treatment of the boy's wounds,' Ryanair tells court

Ryanair, who this week settled a €60,000 claim on behalf of an eight-year-old boy who was scalded by hot chocolate on a flight from Portugal to Dublin, have disputed a contention that a cold bottle of wine had been used to cool down the child’s wounds.

Although this had been pleaded in court documents on behalf of James Lawlor, who sued the airline through his mother, Karen Lawlor, a solicitor for Ryanair, Mr Peter Lennon, of Lennon and McCartney Solicitors, told Judge James O’Donohoe in the Circuit Civil Court on the following day that this was not the case.