{"id":435371,"date":"2026-05-06T16:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435371\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:15:12","slug":"foolish-to-put-plastic-bags-over-her-shoes-sna-loses-fall-claim-and-must-pay-schools-e30000-legal-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435371\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Foolish\u2019 to put plastic bags over her shoes \u2013 SNA loses fall claim and must pay school&#8217;s \u20ac30,000 legal costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Stock image.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/f26b942d-bd4c-4941-86c0-8ac049bd66ff.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Stock image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A court has rejected a claim by a special needs assistant that she had fallen and broken her wrist because she had been directed by a teacher to wear plastic bin liners over her shoes while crossing a mucky patch in the school grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Judge Simon McAleese, throwing out her personal injuries claim against Holywell Educate Together National School, Swords, Co Dublin, told Martina Reilly she was the author of her own misfortune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stock image. A court has rejected a claim by a special needs assistant that she had fallen and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-435371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}