Mark Keane’s workplace injury award cut to €886,000

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The Court of Appeal reduced Mark Keane’s €944,000 High Court damages award for a workplace injury to €886,000 in a judgment published on 23 June 2026. Keane was injured while helping a colleague trapped in machinery at a Johnson & Johnson plant in Plassey, County Limerick, in 2018.

The court said the reduction reflected a previous €42,000 award related to a 2014 road traffic incident and an adjustment to expected future earnings. Johnson & Johnson had argued that some loss of earnings was linked to that earlier accident and that the High Court award counted it twice.