Day 189 - 20 Nov 95 - Page 06

     
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     2   MR. MORRIS:  Right.
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     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But I suggest that you ask Mrs. Casey to
     5        verify her statement, in any event, before we go any
     6        further.
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     8   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, OK.  (To the witness):   Do you have ------
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    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Do you see the pale blue volume II on the
    11        top, the very top?  There is one with a "II", by your right
    12        elbow.  That is it.
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    14   MR. MORRIS:  I am not sure what number that is.
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    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:   It is "4", divider 4 in there.
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    18   MR. MORRIS:  Number 4.
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    20   MR. RAMPTON:  It should be 3, I think.  I have moved mine.  I do
         not know whether your Lordship did.  It is 4 in III.
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    23   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I have got David McGee at 3 and Mrs. Casey
    24        at 4.
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    26   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes, number III.  She is still in my Civil
    27        Evidence Act -----
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    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Quite right.  It is entirely my fault.  Could
    30        you put II back and take III, Mrs. Casey?  Thank you,
    31        Mr. Rampton.  Divider 4.  All Mr. Morris wants to know is
    32        if that is your statement and if it is true.
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    34   MR. MORRIS:  Have you got the two or three page statement?
    35        A.  I have a two page statement.
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    37   Q.   Right.  There was another letter actually, as well, from
    38        3rd November 1993, which I am not sure where that was put.
    39        It is nothing controversial, anyway.  Is that your
    40        statement; is that a true record of your experience in the
         dispute in 1979?
    42        A.  Yes, it is.
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    44   Q.   That was made on 20th July, 1993?
    45        A.  Yes, it was.
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    47   Q.   You worked at McDonald's for a couple of years or something
    48        before the strike -- a year and a half or something before
    49        the strike started.  What was the first you knew of the
    50        strike? 
    51        A.  The first I knew of the strike was when the pickets 
    52        were placed on Grafton Street a couple of days after, 
    53        I believe, the dispute had started at O'Connell Street.
    54        But I had no knowledge of the dispute at O'Connell Street
    55        at that stage.
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    57   Q.   What was your immediate reaction?
    58        A.  When I arrived for work, there was a group of pickets
    59        on the picket line, with one of the trade union officials
    60        from the Irish Transport and General Workers Union.  They