Girl gets €19k over screw embedded in her foot at National Aquatic Centre

The girl had been using a slide and had stepped on the screw nail while walking close to the swimming pool in the National Aquatic Centre. File photo: INPHO/James Crombie

A large screw nail became embedded in the sole of an eight-year-old girl’s foot as she walked alongside the swimming pool in the National Aquatic Centre, a judge has heard.

Rory O’Reilly, counsel for Lara Claudia Patras, who is now aged 10, told the Circuit Civil Court that staff at the accident and emergency department of Temple Street Children’s Hospital had removed the screw after administering a local anaesthetic.