Cork child 'imprisoned' in hotel creche awarded €16,000

Barrister Eamon Shanahan said Chloe O’Donovanhad been unintentionally locked up alone in the Mount Wolseley Hotel’s Kids Club in Tullow, Co Carlow.

 A judge has approved a €16,000 personal injuries settlement to a five-year-old child, accidentally imprisoned for half an hour in a Co Carlow hotel crèche.

Barrister Eamon Shanahan related the harrowing experience of Chloe O’Donovan to Judge John O’Connor in the Circuit Civil Court. He said the girl had been unintentionally locked up alone in the Mount Wolseley Hotel’s Kids Club in Tullow, Co Carlow.