A publican, who used the fire escape to help clear customers from the premises at closing time, has been ordered to pay almost £14,000 compensation to a man who slipped and fell.
Mr Brian Fagan, Muckross Avenue, Perrystown, Dublin, told his counsel, Ms Margaret Quinn, in the Circuit Civil Court, that he broke his right ring finger in four places when he fell on the fire escape.
Judge Anthony Kennedy held the effect of heavy rain on algae on the steps had made the steel fire escape at The Steering Wheel Pub, Clondalkin, hazardous.
