Donal Kinney family settles €780,000 electrocution claim

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Donal Kinney’s family settled a €780,000 electrocution claim at the High Court on 9 May 2016.

Kinney died after receiving an electric shock while working on a water pump at Brittas Bay, Co Wicklow.

His partner and their two sons brought proceedings against mobile home owner Oliver O’Reilly.

The claims alleged negligence involving the mobile home’s safety, warnings and electricity supply, with liability not in issue.

The settlement was to be divided among Kinney’s partner, their sons, his mother and his brother.