Dishonesty claim is 'greatest insult' to any nurse, theft-accused says

A public health nurse on trial by judge and jury for the alleged theft of over €11,000 from a patient aged in her 80s testified today she never dishonestly took anything – and to claim such a thing was the greatest insult to a nurse.

In the witness box, Deirdre Kenneally, 47, of Leitrim, Kilworth, Co Cork, said: “I never dishonestly took anything from Alice Twomey. Anything I took was monies owed to me as logged in my small diary.