A Dublin-based legal assistant, who claimed she had been intimidated, scared and bullied by an Irish Rail inspector who questioned her about an invalid train ticket, has lost a €75,000 defamation case against the company and ordered to pay its costs. Judge Groarke told barrister Jeri Ward, counsel for Irish Rail, that he could not see that what had been said to Ms Dowd on the train by the inspectors had been defamatory. When Inspector Gary Dunne had boarded the train beyond Sallins, at the Celbridge-Hazelhatch stop, he had told her she had an invalid ticket. He said she had been travelling on the monthly February ticket on January 29 “knowing full well she did not have a valid ticket”. Regarding what Mr Dunne allegedly stated on the train, the court was resolving that issue in his favour.

Source: Irish Examiner February 07, 2019 04:30 UTC