Mother fails in claim against school over daughter's fall on playground steps

The schoolgirl suffered fractures to her right and left ankles in the fall

Her right ankle was in a cast for eight weeks and her left ankle was strapped. File photo: iStock

A High Court judge has dismissed a damages action by a woman who sued her daughter’s national school over ankle injuries suffered after she fell on the last of a flight of steps leading to its playground.

A core argument made by 36-year-old Ciara Finlay in her case was that the steps should have had hand-rails.