Talk about a brass neck. The picture in the paper has a face that is basically screaming, ah well that was worth a shot. Meanwhile, Irish Rail are down 10 or 20 grand in legal costs and the costs to the state are probably somewhat similar.
As usual for the Indo it is a very poor piece of journalism. It doesn't establish whether or not the ticket collector's statement about the tampering with the travel card had any basis in fact so it is impossible to figure out if the judge was being reasonable in not awarding costs against her.
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