A little girl who it was claimed was savagely attacked and bitten by a collie dog on a Limerick farm has settled a High Court action for €65,000.
Alice Candido da Costa, who is from Brazil, had at the time been staying in a house on the farm when it was claimed she was bitten by a brown and white collie.
The High Court heard the three-year-old girl suffered a nasty dog bite to the face and has been left with scarring but it has improved over time.
The little girl’s mother who was cooking in the kitchen heard her daughter scream and found her bleeding profusely.
Alice Candido Da Costa from Brazil had through her mother Emanuelle Dos Santos Candido sued the owners of the dog and farm, Seamus and Alice Noonan of Ballyduhig Co Limerick over the attack on their Ballyduhig farm on July 17th, 2022.
At the time of the attack the little girl lived with her parents in a house on the farm at Ballyduhig.
It was claimed that at around noon on July 17th, 2022,…