After the storm, the calm. On Tuesday, a smattering of barristers and two journalists were in Court 25 in the Four Courts when the case between the financier Dermot Desmond and The Irish Times was called before Mr Justice Tony O’Connor in the jury list. Listed for a five-to-six-day hearing, potential jurors for the civil trial were piled into a neighbouring court awaiting directions. They would not be needed.  Senior counsel Tom Hogan, representing Desmond on instruction from Shane MacSweeney of MacSweeney & Company solicitors, informed the judge that the matter had settled and could be struck out with no…

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