VIRGIN MEDIA WHOLESALE LTD V THE OWNERS AND ALL PERSONS CLAIMING AN INTEREST IN THE LIDA SUZANNA

[2025] IEHC 493, High Court, Admiralty, Ireland, Mr Justice Denis McDonald, 18 September 2025

Tort – Subsea cable damaged by fishing vessel – Ownership of cable – Duty of care of fishing vessels to sub-sea cable owners – Damages – Quantum

At 11.41 on 26 January 2015 an alarm indicated a cable fault on a subsea fibreoptic cable between Lytham St Annes in Lancashire in Great Britain and Portmarnock in County Dublin in Ireland.