£36,000 footpath claim thrown out

A £30,000 claim for damages against Fingal County Council by a man who claimed to have fallen on a defective footpath, has been dismissed by Judge Raymond Groarke in Dublin Circuit Civil Court. Judge Groarke told Mr Colm P. Condon, counsel for the local authority, that Mr Paul Daly, of Fortlawn Drive, Mountview, Dublin, had failed to satisfy him as to why his story in court differed from what he had told his solicitor more than five years ago.