A guesthouse operator has been fined £500 for a breach of health and safety requirements discovered after a window-cleaner fell to his death. Gerard Coyne (43), owner of the Anchor guesthouse in Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, pleaded guilty to failing to have a safety statement covering work carried out by contractors on his premises.
Dublin District Court heard yesterday that Louis Maguire fell 30 feet after a rail surrounding a second-floor window gave way.