Late docker’s asbestos-linked cancer case settled for €42k

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Father of five (68) worked in Dublin port unloading cargo from vessels

The family of a Dublin docker who died seven years ago from a cancer later found to be linked to asbestos dust has settled their High court action for €42,000.

The family’s counsel John Nolan BL told the court on Tuesday Mr Kelty had worked on the Dublin docks from 1964 until his retirement in 1977. He died in 2012. Martin Kelty was a docker who started working in 1964 in the docks unloading cargo from vessels with a crane or by the use of ships derricks.

 

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