Man sues travel agency after ceiling fan's blade in Tenerife aparthotel strikes son, two

Kevin Heeney has appealed to the High Court, saying the ceiling fan was set at a hazardously low level

The court heard his son Mason, who was going on three at the time, was crying in the room and Mr Heeney, who is six feet three inches in height, picked the boy up to comfort him when the metal blade of the fan, which was around six feet 9.5 inches from the floor, struck the boy behind his ear. File photo: MileA

A travel agency has denied a ceiling fan in a Spanish aparthotel room was set at a hazardously low level because it struck a man’s two-year-old son as he picked him up to comfort him, the High Court heard.

Kevin Heeney, Corofin House, Clare Village, Malahide Road, Dublin, last April lost an action in the Circuit Court against Sunway Travel Ltd, t/a as Sunway Holidays, over the accident in the aparthotel which he claimed disrupted the family holiday to Tenerife in August 2015.