The Circuit Civil Court has approved a settlement of injury compensation for a trip in a museum for an eight-year-old boy who suffered an eye injury in an accident at the National Museum of Ireland.
Circuit Court President, Mr Justice Raymond Groarke, heard how Bradley Kavanagh from Dublin had been enjoying a visit to the National Museum of Ireland with his grandfather when he tripped on a ‘defective floor surface’ and cut his head just above his left eyebrow.
Bradley – who was six years of age at the time – was taken by ambulance to the Temple Street Children´s Hospital, where five stitches were inserted into the wound while he was under a general anaesthetic.
Through his parents, Bradley made a claim for injury compensation for a trip in a museum against the National Museum of Ireland and, Mr Justice Raymond Groarke was told, an offer of compensation amounting to €18,133 had been made by the museum which the family were willing to accept.
After hearing that the cut had resulted in a permanent scar above Bradley´s eye, Mr Justice Raymond Groarke approved the settlement.