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GAZETTE
JULY/AUGIJST 1984
We show
a greater interest
on other
people's money.
Ci ty of Dub l in Ba nk PLC. is a
p u b l i c l imi t ed c omp a ny, quo t ed
o n T h e S t o ck Ex c h a n ge — I r i sh.
It is a b a n k l i censed by t he
Ce n t r a l B a nk of I re l and a nd
d e p o s i t s p l aced wi th u s have
T r u s t ee S t a t u s . We a re also a n
App r oved Ba nk by t he
I n c o r p o r a t ed Law Soc i e ty to
a c c ept c l i en t s' f u n d s on depos i i.
We h a ve long expe r i ence dea l i ng
w i t h So l i c i t ors a nd provide t he
pe r f ect servi ce in t e rms of
a c c e p t i ng d e po s i ts on d ema nd
s u p p o r t ed by t he best ma r ket
depo s i t r a t e s.
P h o ne u s now for a quo t e.
CITYof
D U B U n Q b A N K
2 Lower Merrion Street, Dublin 2. Phone 760141 763225.
requested them, is not valid. The [local] Minor [Ice]
Hockey Association does not recommend the use of
helmets when playing league games. You put on a
helmet, or you don't play. Students must be told,
when necessary, 'wear goggles'."
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(2) Supervision in School Playgrounds
It is beyond argument that some degree of supervision
is necessary where children are playing in school play-
grounds but the courts have been anxious to make it plain
that too high a standard of care will not be demanded. As
O Dálaigh C.J. said in
Lennon
-v-
McCarthy
30
:
"When normally healthy children are in the play-
ground it is not necessary that they should be under
constant supervision."
Similarly, in the English decision of
Rawsthorne
-v-
Ottley
n
, Hilbery J. expressed the view that:
"it is not the law, and never has been the law, that a
schoolmaster should keep boys under supervision
during every moment of their school lives."
The Irish cases present interesting examples of the
range of cases that can arise under the general heading of
supervision. In
Ryan
-v-
Madden
32
, the failure of a
national school teacher to supervise young pupils,
including the plaintiff, aged five, when they were leaving
the building at the end of school hours was held to be
negligence where the child slid down the bannisters from
the upper floor (where the class-room was).
In
O'Gorman
-v-
Crotty
33
, a ten-year-old pupil, when
being chased during play in the school playground, fell
over one of the several wooden blocks which were lying in
the playground. The blocks were sometimes used to
support boards for use as seats, but appear to have served
no positive function as play objects. In holding the school
manager and principal teacher liable, O'Byrne J. stated:
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