An eight-year-old schoolgirl, who dislocated a knee when she fell in a Dún Laoghaire cinema, has been awarded €40,000 damages in the Circuit Civil Court for personal injuries. Barrister Siobhán Gaffney told the court that Tori McDermott Ellis had tripped on an uneven floor surface in the EMC Cinema at the Bloomfield Shopping Centre, Dún Laoghaire, on October 2nd, 2016. She said Tori had been taken by ambulance to Crumlin children’s hospital where an X-ray revealed her left kneecap had been dislocated. Ms Gaffney told Judge Francis Comerford that Tori’s left leg had been placed in a cast for several weeks and she had missed school for some of that time. Tori, through her mother Mellissa Ellis, had sued Irish Multiplex Cinemas Limited, Dún Laoghaire, and the judge approved the settlement together with costs.

Source: The Irish Times January 15, 2020 14:31 UTC