Woman who slipped on icy path during 'appalling weather' awarded €117,000

Catia Haider was awarded €175,000, but will only get €117,000 after she was found one third responsible for her accident

The court had heard she was walking along the path at Kennedy Avenue near the entrance to the shopping centre in Carlow town when she stepped out of the way of some other people and when she stepped back on the path she fell. File picture

A woman who suffered a severe ankle injury after she slipped on an icy section of path when she went out to the shops in bad weather has been awarded €175,000 by the High Court.

But the mother of two, Catia Haider, will only get €117,000 after she was found one third responsible for her accident in January 2010 when the country was in the grip of extreme weather conditions with heavy snowfalls and ice.