By Georgina Brennan

Ireland’s most famous tenor has quietly settled his legal suit against a Colorado hotel where a bench collapsed while he was taking a shower.

Ronan Tynan, known to millions for regularly leading the national anthem at Yankee Stadium, was hoping to get $8 million from the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs.

His lawyer, David Palmer, said that a settlement was reached but would not say for how much.

The Broadmoor released a statement saying, “We regret that one of our guests was injured at the hotel and have taken steps to ensure that such an incident will not happen again.”

In a video deposition revealed by the Irish Voice earlier this year Tynan, a former member of the best-selling Irish Tenors group, said the accident left him in “unbelievable pain” and “ripping angry.”

The $8 million suit included $5 million for loss of earnings. Tynan claimed a bench shower, fitted for people with disabilities, collapsed under him as he was taking a shower at the Broadmoor in July 2002.

The case went to trial in Denver this month, but was settled after a day of legal wrangling.

Last May, Tynan’s lawyers were forced to go ahead with the case after Denver Federal Court ruled that they should not be allowed to reinspect the hotel shower.

Tynan, who has two artificial legs after a motorcycle accident in his twenties, had requested a room fitted for people with disabilities, including a shower bench.

In the deposition, recorded on February 9 and partially released by the court, Tynan said the bench collapsed and he fell. “I was ripping angry because, you know, first of all, there was no facility there for me to call anybody,” he said. “They apologized profusely and I accepted that.”

He told a staff member that he was not the type of person who sued.

Tynan, who practiced as an orthopaedic doctor, initially thought he had hurt his wrist but he realized his injuries were much more serious while sitting in an aircraft 12 hours later.

”I started to develop unbelievable pain, unbelievable,” he told the court, before explaining that he started to feel a burning sensation.

“I can remember sitting in the plane, leaning to the side and the perspiration was oozing out from me.”

Two or three days after the accident, “things got really crazy” and he called the hotel to complain of arm and neck pains.

Tynan, 45, became internationally famous along with Finbar Wright and Anthony Kearns as the Irish Tenors but has since pursued solo projects.