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The award of €40,000 to hillwalker Teresa Wall in April of last year for a fall on the Wicklow Way opened up the possibility of these hugely popular
Ms Wall had claimed that she tripped and fell after her foot had snagged on a hole in rotted railway sleepers that had been used in the construction of a boardwalk just in the shadow of the JB Malone memorial on the Sally Gap to Djouce wood trail
Ruling on the NPWS’s appeal this morning, Mr Justice White said that Mrs
Adjourning the matter for two weeks, the judge asked the lawyers for the NWPS to
For the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht
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t was a decision that left many people in Wicklow – and around the country – more than a 
little furious.
walks being seriously undermined.
near Roundwood.
Wall was “a genuine person” who had suffered injuries that had affected her “active lifestyle”. Nonetheless, he felt that the “mechanism of her fall” had a “high degree of negligence on Mrs Wall’s part in that she was not looking at the surface of the boardwalk when she fell”.
Affairs, Heather Humphreys, and the Minister of State for Regional Development, Michael Ring, today’s decision was very much welcomed, stating that they would now take time to consider the findings of the court case, “and its future implications for our National Parks and their recreational remit”.