Employer not an insurer of his employees

In June 2025, the High Court delivered its judgment on an appeal against a decision of the Circuit Court in relation to a man’s claim for compensation for back injury, for what he alleged was an accident at work. When the case came on for hearing, the Court was told that in 2016 the Appellant, Mark Lawless, worked for a short period of time as a stable-hand at horse trainer Adrian Keatley’s Rossmore Cottage Stables in the Curragh. He alleged that on March 9, 2016, he injured his back while emptying a wheelbarrow of soiled hay from horse boxes into…