Journalism and Cycling 2: the difficult second album

I've no Idea about this particular case, but very often in supermarket cases, fraud RTA cases etc, the Defendant will have tipped off their pet journalist to be there.

There's not much point arguing liability in the case above unless they have video evidence from bus CCTV supporting their argument. If they have they have to put that to the Plaintiff in cross examination.

Bus Eireann are probably largely self insured so they might not like his loss of earnings bill or something (given his occupation).

What I'd love to see is random wands replaced with very well anchored solid steel painted to look like the plastic wands. That'd cool their enthusiasm for running over wands

Well either the Plaintiff rejected the award from PIAB or the Defendant did which allows the authorisation for court proceedings to issue.

As to why its in the paper is the journalist (Tim Healy I presume, his name is on story in the Independent) knows that it will likely be picked up by the other papers and websites due to the cycling element. The more people that click on it the more he is paid. So by putting the story in this thread or facebook/twitter you are part of the problem.

There is no journalism anymore for the most part, just people who earn money by stirring sh1te.

A couple of years back there was two entirely separate cases which occurred in the same Munster town and where heard on the same day. They also involved the same insurance company defending both cases, and the key element was that both Plaintiffs were from the same country. It would have taken a bit of effort to get both listed on the same day.

The entire defence team came down from Dublin with their "reporter" in tow. One of the Plaintiffs was pretty dodgy; a few previous claims, caught telling lies on medicals etc. The second one was a hard working man who had an unfortunate accident.

During the hearing on the second case the judge made a funny comment in relation to an old Cork City saying about an optician and I said to journalist "there's your headline anyway". Except the headline was already written to get clicks; "people from this country are all chancers".

To save having to state their ethnic background they had a photographer with them who photographed both Plaintiff and included both photographs with the story.

When people complain here about Pat Kenny, the journal or wherever, you are playing their game.

It looks like a close variant of the yellow box collisions that are quite common (I nearly had a yellow box collision years ago and I've been very cautious of proceeding through or into gaps in traffic ever since).

I don't know the legality of incidents like that, but when I do drive, I don't drive blithely into gaps in traffic. I'd always assume there might be someone coming up the side on a two-wheeler of some sort, and I would expect a careful driver to do likewise. But what the legal situations is, what do I know.

The guy who got hit by the Bus Eireann bus won his case and awarded around €125,000.

Don't see Cannon doing a whole lot wrong tbh, and nothing illegal. Perhaps could've been more cautious for his own benefit, but that's different from contributing to the incident.

Driver should've stopped once had vision to check past the cars - it could've been a pedestrian or a child crossing the road (also with right of way). Pretty basic stuff not to trust another driver letting you go.