The jury has finished hearing evidence in the defamation claim by two human rights lawyers against businessman Denis O'Brien and his PR spokesman James Morrissey, who finished his testimony on Tuesday.
Big hitters like Dómhnal Slattery were convinced there was serious money to be made in Ireland's local newspaper business. But as ambitious new players emerged and legacy owners wrestled with huge offers, a brutal financial reckoning lay ahead.
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.
The crux of the EPA case rests on the courts' interpretation of what is an area of active peat extraction. The decision will have ramifications for its enforcement activity and on the under-pressure midlands peat industry.
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Extracts from the Belfast-born author’s autobiography and its afterword, now published in English for the first time, chronicle her extraordinary journey from Ireland to fame in East Germany.
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”.
The family business, run from Limerick, works with airlines and lessors to move aircraft engines and parts around the world and has more than €38 million in turnover.
Alan Doyle kicked off Aerlytix in 2020 in the midst of Covid challenges and aviation’s shutdown but in the last five years it has raised over €10m and is now plotting a major product expansion.
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