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Joan Burton has denied she looked relaxed with a newspaper when she was allegedly trapped in her car




Labour’s Joan Burton, the former Tanaiste was in court today discussing the “ordeal” which she went through when she was allegedly imprisoned in her car during the water protests in 2014.

According to RTE, she denied looking relaxed while reading a newspaper when she was allegedly falsely imprisoned in her car.

Burton was being cross examined the State broadcaster reports in a trial of a TD and six other men who are charged with falsely imprisoning her and her adviser Karen O’Connell at a water charges protest near Jobstown in November 2014.

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