Two high-powered businesswomen are battling it out in the High Court in a row that erupted over a multi-million euro contract to publish the Aer Lingus in-flight magazine.
Publisher Norah Casey, whose company Harmonia Ltd is the biggest magazine publisher in Ireland, and Mary Kershaw, her former employee, are on either side of the case, which involves claims of stolen corporate trade secrets.
Harmonia Ltd hired private computer forensics investigators and claimed that Ms Kershaw gave secret inside information to aid a rival firm to secure the tender for the contract to publish Cara magazine.
It is alleged that Ms Kershaw -- who was still working for Harmonia at the time -- gave the information to Max Media Communications, a company owned by another of Ms Casey's former employees, Garret Whelan.
