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A DUBLIN WOMAN, who alleged she had been accused of stealing a €1 shopping bag from Dunnes Stores, has settled her €75,000 defamation claim for an undisclosed sum against the shopping chain.
Catherine Duff, with an address at Lower Gardiner Street, Dublin, told the Circuit Civil Court today that security man Giedrus Pieka had shouted at her: “You did not pay for the bag…you were going to steal that bag.”
Pieka denied having spoken the words and told Circuit Court President, Justice Raymond Groarke, that he had discreetly asked a check-out operative at Dunnes Stores, North Earl Street, Dublin, if she had checked through the plastic “bag for life” with Duff’s groceries.
He had been told she had not.
He told barrister Frank Crean, counsel for Duff, that his client had called him “a fucking foreign bastard” during the incident at the check-out.
Crean, who appeared with O’Hanrahan Lally Solicitors, told Pieka in cross-examination that he had not stated in his direct evidence he had seen Duff pull the price tag off the bag and throw it away. Pieka said that while he had not thought it important at the time he was saying it now.
“I didn’t think that was important but now I remember it,” he told Crean.
Judge Groarke said Pieka’s new evidence in cross-examination had become a very important part of the case and the suggestion had not been put to Duff when she was in the witness box.
Duff denied she had shouted at Pieka and claimed such evidence if presented to the court would be “so not true”.
She said she had taken the bag for her groceries and had put it up on the check-out desk and believed the lady on the desk had scanned it through with her groceries.
Crean asked for some time to discuss a new development with his client.
A short time later he told Judge Groarke that the case could be struck out with an order for taxation of Duff’s legal costs.
Details of the settlement were not disclosed in court.
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Still use my nano for runs and the gym , it’s great.
We had the classic iPod, then our daughter got the nano5 and our son the nano7. His has broken since, but hers still works.
Would be nice to have an mp3 player not reliant on the internet to give kids to let them have music in their bedroom….tjat did not have a camera, text messaging, etc. In other words, can we have separate devices for each activity? Oh wait….we used to have it that way…..
@Seeking Truth: I bought my daughter a low tech stereo system and CDs! She loves that the radio never buffers!!!
@Deborah Behan: she has a CD player and can listen to the radio on her iPod nano. But Spotify makes things tricky!! Looking at a Sonos wireless speaker that runs from an app anywhere in the house so the device can stay downstairs but they are fairly spendy!!!
Still have me 2gb nano and 80gb iPod 2nd edition and they are still going strong!
I still use my 120gb iPod. Long may it last !
I wish I had any iPod
I won an iPod nano 4th gen in college in 2004. I wasn’t into music really turn so I gave it to my sister who was. A few years later she gave it back when she got a phone that could store music. I used it for podcasts and music then. In 2010 I got an iPod touch 4th gen and used that instead. A couple years ago I gave the iPod nano back to my sister and she uses it for music in her car. It’s a great little device.
What’s a Walkman ??? :) I’m still hauling a record player around with a long extension lead :)
I have the first Generation IPod, took great care of it and think I even have the original box for it.I’m hoping it will be worth something in the future
@Melina Roberts: It probably will be. Apple recalled them a few years back due to battery issues and replaced them with a newer version (the small square thing whose button always breaks). If the screen wasn’t broken we wouldn’t of sent ours away. It was the original classic design.
Pity…
very tough to get a device these days that children want and can satisfy parents at the same time.
Over rated over priced just like VW Audi cars.
@Alan Scott: I got a nano 9 years ago and still works fine. Worth every cent!
I had a 5th gen Nano about 10 years ago. It was a perfect piece of kit and had I not lost it it would probably still be my preferred way to listen to music.
I had a 160gb iPod classic and have an iPod touch but never use it now. I use Spotify on my phone as my main source of music these days.
I waited for the first generation iPod touch. I still have it (though for a time I thought I lost it and got a 4th or 5th generation iPod touch and found the 1st generation one a few days later.)
never liked apple devices
Classic
I have a one of those iPod classics U2 edition jobbys somewhere in the house, never even been used as I can’t find it. I’m sure that it is a great little device when it turns up! : O
Never owned an Apple product and never will.
My neck’s killing me carting this boombox about.
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