Row with bus driver over €50 note ‘traumatised’ student

A €50 note, offered to a Limerick City Bus Éireann driver to pay a €1.80 fare, sparked a row which traumatised a student travelling to a counselling session, a court heard.

Robert McDonagh, aged 26, with an address at Apartment 4, Cathedral Place, Limerick, sued Bus Éireann for defamation and personal injury arising out of the incident on May 22, 2012, while on his way to an appointment at Limerick Pieta House.

It was claimed at Limerick Circuit Civil Court yesterday that while the incident did not cause Mr McDonagh emotional suffering, it did result in transient upset triggering nightmares of incidents dating back to earlier years.