€10k over claim woman failed to pay for potatoes

A 38-year-old supervisor claimed in court that an allegation by Dunnes Stores that she had failed to pay for a bag of potatoes had left a blight on her character.

Frank Crean, counsel for Lisa Moore, told the Circuit Civil Court that not only had the allegation been made publicly by a security man on March 20, 2017, it had been mentioned to her two months later by a guest at a child’s Confirmation.

Mr Crean told Judge Terence O’Sullivan she had been greatly distressed by the incident and felt her character had been defamed.