First-aid treatment offered to an injured nine-year-old boy at a golf summer camp was described in the Circuit Civil Court on Friday as egregiously inappropriate and inadequate.
Barrister Gareth Kinsella told the court that Mr Rafferty Louis had been playing a game of rounders at the golf club when he fell. His games supervisor, who had been running close to him, had fallen on top of the boy. Mr Kinsella, who appeared with Williams Solicitors for Mr Rafferty Louis and his mother, Aisling Louis, told the court that Mr Rafferty Louis had not received any further medical treatment until his mother had called to the club and had taken him to hospital. She had left him at the golf club three hours earlier.
Mr Rafferty Louis through his mother had sued Castleknock Golf Club as well as Dublin-based companies BRBM Golf and Leisure, Cglf Limited and Glenveagh Properties Plc. Mr Kinsella said the Injuries Board had assessed compensation at €32,000 and a settlement on behalf of all defendants had been made to the boy, along with almost €1,600 special damages.