Teenage athlete who suffered undetected broken bone in foot for weeks awarded €44k

A very accomplished young athlete, who suffered the agony of walking for weeks on an undetected broken bone in her right foot, has been awarded almost €44,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court.

Barrister Breffni Gordon, counsel for 15-year-old Sophia Crawford, told Judge John O’Connor that an x-ray of her foot following a fall in Drury Street Car Park in Dublin three years ago had not revealed any bone injury.