Human rights lawyer Darragh Mackin didn’t look up from his laptop as the jury returned to court just after 1.30pm. The nine men and three women had been deliberating for around two and a half hours and the verdicts were in. Justice Tony O’Connor took the issue paper from the foreman of the jury.  Of a series of questions put to them about the meaning of a press release issued on behalf of businessman Denis O’Brien, they had answered only one.  Did the words “Sinn Féin/IRA certainly got the report they paid for” mean that Mackin and his Phoenix Law colleague Gavin…

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