School told 'think again' after offering €17k to pupil for foot injury

Teenager awarded €20,000 for injuries sustained after heavy cone fell on his foot in national school playground in 2018

The boy was taken to the accident and emergency unit of Tallaght Hospital where it was found his big toe had been fractured. Picture: Sasko Lazarov / RollingNews.ie

A school which offered a 15-year-old pupil €17,000 damages for a foot injury he sustained after being told by a teacher to move heavy cones in the playground, was told by a judge on Friday it wasn’t enough and to think again.

Judge John O’Connor said in the Circuit Civil Court that adequate compensation from Our Lady of Good Counsel Boys’ National School could be as high as €25,000 for schoolboy Joe Bennett, of Churchview Road, Killiney, Co Dublin.