SUPERMACS CUSTOMER AWARDED 25 THOUSAND EURO DAMAGES

Date Published: 12-Feb-2009

A Supermac’s customer was awarded €25,000 in damages yesterday by the High Court for being falsely imprisoned by security staff at the company’s main Galway City fastfood outlet eight years ago.30 year old Niall Condon, an unemployed construction worker, from Corrandulla, sued Supermac’s for assault and false imprisonment after he was forcibly detained at the premises in Eyre Square, on December 22, 2000.The High Court, sitting in Galway, heard evidence last week that Mr. Condon had been convicted and fined for a Public Order offence arising from the same incident.