Canadian pensioner awarded €100k for fall on Thai restaurant's ornamental bridge

Mrs McKinnon needed a partial left hip replacement and a left shoulder injury was later diagnosed

“The impact of this injury on Mrs McKinnon and her everyday living is permanent and will remain so. This situation will not alter or improve,” the judge added.

An elderly Canadian woman who hurt her hip as she negotiated an ornamental timber bridge in an oriental restaurant has been awarded €100,000 by a High Court judge.

73-year-old Catherine McKinnon from Prince Edward Island was on a “bucket list” trip to Ireland tracing her Irish roots when the accident happened 10 years ago.