A woman who fell eight feet to the ground and hurt her back as she strolled in her hotel grounds with her young son on the first day of a Spanish holiday has been awarded €48,000 by the High Court.
. Suddenly she fell eight feet to a walkway below.“My left foot took the brunt, I couldn't get up. I had significant pain in my back, and I told my son to go back and get granny and granddad.” "My family had to go back home after, but my father stayed on a further two weeks until I could travel home,” she told the court.Her counsel David Kennedy SC instructed by Lauren Delahunty solicitor told the court that Ms Miller has suffered a very serious accident and the family holiday had been effectively ruined.
Her family had booked a holiday online to travel out to Lanzarote on December 29, 2019 and return to Dublin on January 8, 2020.