Pub customer loses €60k claim over fall in disabled toilet which knocked him unconscious

Complainant, who uses crutches to walk, claimed floor under hand dryer was wet, causing him to slip and fall

Complainant told court when he entered the area near a hand dryer his left crutch slipped on the tiled floor and he had fallen and had been knocked unconscious. Picture: iStock

A 67-year-old Dublin man, who has to use crutches to walk, has lost a €60,000 personal injuries claim against The Merrion Inn owners following a fall in the pub-restaurant’s toilet for the disabled.

Michael Ryan, of Trimleston Park, Booterstown, Co Dublin, told the Circuit Civil Court on Thursday that “following a very good meal and two pints of Heineken” he had gone to the WC while waiting for a taxi to arrive.