Full coverage: Denis O'Brien

James Morrissey, Denis O'Brien's spokesman, has told a jury that a "fractious history” between republicans and INM was behind a 2016 media report commissioned by a Sinn Féin MEP and criticising the businessman.

Human rights solicitor Gavin Booth testified on Friday that businessman Denis O'Brien's comments on a 2016 report on Ireland's media landscape allegedly suggesting the lawyer was in the pay of the IRA were “way below the line”. 

From "kill all taigs" to bias, and Roy Greenslade's IRA sympathies, day two of lawyers Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth's defamation suit against businessman Denis O'Brien covered a lot of ground.

Two Belfast human rights lawyers claim a press release issued by the businessman in response to a 2016 report they co-authored on Irish media owners wrongly implied they were in the pay of the IRA. Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan commissioned the report.

The former Kilkenny hurler was jailed for five and a half years for scamming people out of money to pay for cancer treatment he did not need.

Tony Boyle built a global communications business, and spent three decades battling the State and Ireland’s richest men over the mobile phone licence — a fight he was determined to win until illness claimed him this week.

The businessman excoriated an "entitlement culture" which sees junior employees "dictating their work practices to their employers" and said that everyone needs to get back to the workplace immediately.

Persona’s legal action against the State is inching closer to a full hearing. The government that Michael Lowry helped form is defending the case, despite accepting the findings of the tribunal underpinning the case that Lowry rejects. Confused? You should be.

Time passes. The world moves on. Yet the report of the Moriarty tribunal should not be diminished by time. It still stands as the authoritative version of events, even if it is politically convenient to ignore it.

After a number of years selling assets in Ireland, Denis O'Brien has just bought a five-star hotel in Portugal. It is a strategic asset for the businessman, who has extensive properties nearby.