Cork City Council avoids paying damages for injuries suffered by girl on boulders

Lawyers for the girl claimed the boulders constituted a trap or allurement which the council had failed to fence off or remove. File picture. 

A Cork girl has failed in her legal action against Cork City Council over injuries sustained while playing on boulders at the entrance to a green area near the estate where she lives in Mayfield.

The High Court dismissed an appeal against a ruling by Cork Circuit Civil Court that the council was not liable for the broken arm suffered by Leah Mulcahy (11), who sued through her mother, Krystle, after she jumped off a large boulder on council-owned land adjoining Glencree Crescent in Mayfield on July 22, 2017, when she was eight years old.