Data dispute ends in court

A DISPUTE between a food manufacturer and four of its employees over the alleged accessing of confidential company information is due to be settled in the High Court today.

Green Isle Foods, Naas, Kildare, had earlier this week obtained a temporary injunction from the court requiring Declan Foley, John Recto, Colum Beirne and John Peters to maintain the confidentiality of the information which allegedly included commercially sensitive data on company profitability and a plan for a small number of redundancies.

They had been suspended on full pay last Friday after it was alleged they accidentally accessed the information and it was allegedly downloaded onto a USB memory stick.