A court has approved an award of €40,000 in compensation to a Dublin three-year-old who lost the top of his finger in a “traumatic incident” involving a creche door.
The Journal reports that Circuit Court President Mr Justice Raymond Groarke accepted the offer of €40,000 after rejecting an earlier offer of €20,000 for Kyle Tighe Donoghue.
A staff member had taken Kyle to use the toilet at the Doras Bui Creche, Bunratty Drive, Coolock, Dublin when the incident occurred in December of 2014. Another child allegedly slammed the stall door on the tot’s left ring finger, severing it at the joint.
Management informed Kyle’s mother Rachel Tighe Donoghue that her little boy would need stitches. The full extent of his injury was not uncovered until medics attempted to tend to the wound.
The grim discovery was made by a paramedic in an ambulance en route to the Children’s University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin, prompting Kyle’s mother to make a frantic call to the creche, where an employee discovered the severed finger still attached to the stall door.
Luckily, doctors were able to reattach the fingertip, but the child’s parents reportedly remain concerned regarding the psychological trauma the incident may have caused to their son and sued Doras Bui Creche for negligence on Kyle’s behalf.
