A David Bowie fan who fell while leaving a concert has lost her claim for up to £30,000 damages against the Point Exhibition Co in Dublin.
Judge Liam Devally, awarding legal costs against Ms Mary O'Connor (43), of Irishtown, Dublin, said the courts were experiencing a glut of cases which had a very thin basis for litigation.
He said there were 7,000 fans at the David Bowie concert in November 1995, and a certain amount of "turbulence" among fans leaving such venues was to be expected.
Mr David Nolan, for the Point, said the equivalent of twice the population of the city of Limerick had passed through its doors since the venue opened 12 years ago without a single incident of slipping and falling.
Judge Devally said Ms O'Connor had suffered shock and pain but had not been seriously injured. He could not understand why she, or her husband who was with her, had made no complaint to Point Depot staff at the time or to paramedics who had treated her for almost half-an-hour for abrasions to her knees.
The legal costs of Ms O'Connor's claim were estimated at more than £7,000.