It was finally over after more than nine years. Human rights lawyers Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth had won a court case in relation to a statement by James Morrissey, the spokesperson for Denis O’Brien, that had falsely claimed they were funded by the IRA for producing a report in 2016 on the then concentration of media ownership in Ireland.  After the trial, Mackin told The Currency: “For almost a decade, our families and friends have had this episode hanging over them. Today marks the light at the end of a very dark tunnel. After a decade, we have been…

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