A judge has approved a €25,000 settlement for a toddler who fell 10 feet onto concrete paving through a gap in glass panelling where one of the panels was missing.
Barrister Eavanna Fitzgerald told the Circuit Civil Court yesterday that, as Ewa Stecyk tried to unlock an entrance gate to a Dublin apartment building, her son, 19-month-old Alex Szabo, decided to peek through a glass-panelled barrier.
Ms Fitzgerald, who appeared with Maguire McClafferty Solicitors for Alex and Ms Stecyk, said the child and his mother were unaware that one of the large glass panels was missing.
“The boy walked through the space and fell three metres onto a concrete surface,” Ms Fitzgerald told Judge John O’Connor.
Styling: Holly Elgeti. Make-up: Nicky Weir using Hourglass Beauty. Hair: Alex Szabo at Carol Hayes using T3 Haircare. Shirt, Lisou. Earrings, Missoma. Trousers, Marella. Rings, Daisy Jewellery, Pilgrim.
Every so often, popular culture tilts on its axis and makes you feel unwittingly ahead of the curve.
It is a rare but significant event, like the passing of Halley’s Comet, when the vagaries of fashion and personal identity converge and meet for a few seconds in a tiny, bright spot that dazzles briefly before disappearing.
It happened with corduroy trousers: I wore them as a child when they were the epitome of cringe and then hipsters made them cool again. When the Twilight movies were all the rage in the early 2000s, my vampiric pallor that had caused me such angst as a teenager was suddenly de rigueur.
Myleene Klass today reveals she suffered a miscarriage while presenting a live radio programme – yet found the strength to finish the show.
In a moving interview with You magazine, the singer-turned-broadcaster describes how she went to the toilet during a break and realised she had lost her child. I was on air. I went to the loo while the music was playing and there was blood everywhere. I didn t know what to do. I had one hour left of my show.
Distraught, she called her friend Lauren Laverne, the presenter of Radio 4 s Desert Island Discs, who gently supported her through the rest of the show.