Woman who has to wear special insole for rest of her life awarded €60k for stepping into knee-deep hole

A woman, who will have to wear a special insole in one of her shoes for the rest of her life following a fall in Blackrock Park, Dublin, today settled a €60,000 damages claim against Dunlaoghaire-Rathdown County Council.

Pearl Flynn (aged 53) of Emmet Square, Blackrock, told her counsel William Fitzgerald that she twisted her ankle when she stepped into a hole hidden by long grass which, at the time, came up to her knees.