Council to pay out €10k over woman's 'tree stump' fall

Judge rules council failed to make footpath safe after vandals cut down tree in Ennis town centre, leading to woman's injury

Ennis Circuit Court.

A failure by a council to make a footpath safe around a tree-stump in a town centre has cost it €10,000 in a successful personal injury claim.

This follows Judge Brian O’Callaghan at Ennis Circuit Court ordering Clare Co Council to pay €10,000 in personal injury damages to Marie Walsh after she tripped and fell to the left of the tree stump on December 2, 2018, while out Christmas shopping with her mother in Ennis.