Journalists Aoife Moore and Allison Morris launched High Court defamation proceedings against former Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris in 2021 over tweets sent from various accounts on X (formerly Twitter). The content of the tweets, sent on dates between 2020 and 2021, is alleged to have been malicious and injurious to their reputations. Harris denies defamation. The cases, travelling together, have yet to go before a civil jury. But a pre-trial costs ruling from last year, involving Twitter, has gone against them following an appeal to the Court of Appeal. As a preliminary step in the case, Moore, now a…

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