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Oct 12 2017 - 20:02</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/potential-exists-for-finding-of-legal-right-to-state-housing-judge-1.3254090" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Potential exists for finding of legal right to State housing - judge" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/S4XHEQQ4VQYXIIXS72DJZKTERI.jpg?smart=true&auth=c3231fb9674d367f646a488d96b66f66d21400fa85cc602b7ab3de62e171f2b1&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/S4XHEQQ4VQYXIIXS72DJZKTERI.jpg?smart=true&auth=c3231fb9674d367f646a488d96b66f66d21400fa85cc602b7ab3de62e171f2b1&width=200&height=112 200w, 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href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/an-post-failed-to-tackle-bullying-of-woman-by-co-workers-1.3249816">An Post ‘failed to tackle’ bullying of woman by co-workers</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/an-post-failed-to-tackle-bullying-of-woman-by-co-workers-1.3249816">Catherine Hurley left to ‘ride out the storm’ by employer after complaint about colleague</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Mary Carolan</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-09T15:52:25Z">Mon Oct 09 2017 - 16:52</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/anorexic-girl-missing-ireland-terribly-during-uk-treatment-1.3249795" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Anorexic girl ‘missing Ireland terribly’ during UK treatment" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QJCMHSOGGMNDXRE5JMWLBG33CU.jpg?smart=true&auth=73b58bd8c808f7e4273e0451aa371e36fc86e76b646d99020e8719be938571c1&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QJCMHSOGGMNDXRE5JMWLBG33CU.jpg?smart=true&auth=73b58bd8c808f7e4273e0451aa371e36fc86e76b646d99020e8719be938571c1&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QJCMHSOGGMNDXRE5JMWLBG33CU.jpg?smart=true&auth=73b58bd8c808f7e4273e0451aa371e36fc86e76b646d99020e8719be938571c1&width=400&height=224 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QJCMHSOGGMNDXRE5JMWLBG33CU.jpg?smart=true&auth=73b58bd8c808f7e4273e0451aa371e36fc86e76b646d99020e8719be938571c1&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QJCMHSOGGMNDXRE5JMWLBG33CU.jpg?smart=true&auth=73b58bd8c808f7e4273e0451aa371e36fc86e76b646d99020e8719be938571c1&width=800&height=449 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QJCMHSOGGMNDXRE5JMWLBG33CU.jpg?smart=true&auth=73b58bd8c808f7e4273e0451aa371e36fc86e76b646d99020e8719be938571c1&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/anorexic-girl-missing-ireland-terribly-during-uk-treatment-1.3249795">Anorexic girl ‘missing Ireland terribly’ during UK treatment</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/anorexic-girl-missing-ireland-terribly-during-uk-treatment-1.3249795">Teenager, whose weight fell as low as 35kg, told judge visit would help ‘to motivate me’</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Mary Carolan</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-09T15:39:29Z">Mon Oct 09 2017 - 16:39</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/opinion/editorial/direct-provision-broken-system-must-be-fixed-1.3247056" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img src="https://static.themebuilder.aws.arc.pub/irishtimes/1647534191476.png" alt="" loading="lazy" class="c-image" style="aspect-ratio:3/2"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/opinion/editorial/direct-provision-broken-system-must-be-fixed-1.3247056">Direct provision: broken system must be fixed</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/opinion/editorial/direct-provision-broken-system-must-be-fixed-1.3247056">If past form is any guide, Government will offer minimum in abiding by Supreme Court ruling that asylum seekers be allowed work</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-08T23:05:00Z">Mon Oct 09 2017 - 00:05</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/dublin-hostel-vacated-after-judge-described-it-as-a-fire-trap-1.3247165" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Dublin hostel vacated after judge described it as a fire trap" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/4RRSVJVAO2SA42AQ22IEGIWOZA.jpg?smart=true&auth=6bbf320044880ec6ae814ec59a2a2b33887530edfeeaa932f3679aaaddf79675&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/4RRSVJVAO2SA42AQ22IEGIWOZA.jpg?smart=true&auth=6bbf320044880ec6ae814ec59a2a2b33887530edfeeaa932f3679aaaddf79675&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/4RRSVJVAO2SA42AQ22IEGIWOZA.jpg?smart=true&auth=6bbf320044880ec6ae814ec59a2a2b33887530edfeeaa932f3679aaaddf79675&width=400&height=224 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/4RRSVJVAO2SA42AQ22IEGIWOZA.jpg?smart=true&auth=6bbf320044880ec6ae814ec59a2a2b33887530edfeeaa932f3679aaaddf79675&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/4RRSVJVAO2SA42AQ22IEGIWOZA.jpg?smart=true&auth=6bbf320044880ec6ae814ec59a2a2b33887530edfeeaa932f3679aaaddf79675&width=800&height=449 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/4RRSVJVAO2SA42AQ22IEGIWOZA.jpg?smart=true&auth=6bbf320044880ec6ae814ec59a2a2b33887530edfeeaa932f3679aaaddf79675&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/dublin-hostel-vacated-after-judge-described-it-as-a-fire-trap-1.3247165">Dublin hostel vacated after judge described it as a fire trap</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/dublin-hostel-vacated-after-judge-described-it-as-a-fire-trap-1.3247165">There were no escape routes or fire alarms at premises that housed up to 52 people</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-06T17:35:53Z">Fri Oct 06 2017 - 18:35</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/rape-victim-can-sue-state-over-disclosure-of-address-to-attacker-court-says-1.3247066" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Rape victim can sue State over disclosure of address to attacker, court says" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" 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https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/XFZXJSXP2JSBK3TFYN2FXIYASQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=4948fe165d7809935560844c5472b12da6e080355d0f8aac6d334c5fc9f780d0&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/rape-victim-can-sue-state-over-disclosure-of-address-to-attacker-court-says-1.3247066">Rape victim can sue State over disclosure of address to attacker, court says</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/rape-victim-can-sue-state-over-disclosure-of-address-to-attacker-court-says-1.3247066">Woman had moved house but details accessed through Garda computer system</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-06T16:12:45Z">Fri Oct 06 2017 - 17:12</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/judge-refers-inconsistencies-in-man-s-income-to-revenue-1.3246934" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Judge refers ‘inconsistencies’ in man's income to Revenue" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/PNHQAH6WZF32URPMVDLZ7A64BA.jpg?smart=true&auth=07f80233d2d2e18d20ed8f293f1b45a46c340718442ddb8e8eb0599701eeea4b&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/PNHQAH6WZF32URPMVDLZ7A64BA.jpg?smart=true&auth=07f80233d2d2e18d20ed8f293f1b45a46c340718442ddb8e8eb0599701eeea4b&width=200&height=112 200w, 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href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/judge-refers-inconsistencies-in-man-s-income-to-revenue-1.3246934">Judge refers ‘inconsistencies’ in man's income to Revenue</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/judge-refers-inconsistencies-in-man-s-income-to-revenue-1.3246934">Man had been found in contempt of court in July</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Aodhan O’Faolain</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-06T14:24:57Z">Fri Oct 06 2017 - 15:24</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/man-charged-with-sexual-offences-against-two-sisters-fails-to-stop-trial-1.3246960" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Man charged with sexual offences against two sisters fails to stop trial" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/JHR25BGU4AXTQ4EHUHSWVWZM6Y.jpg?smart=true&auth=4bcdbfb7b07cc0853fec88f38231b5ef52bd246e0a7670c211906da4b0ef912d&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/JHR25BGU4AXTQ4EHUHSWVWZM6Y.jpg?smart=true&auth=4bcdbfb7b07cc0853fec88f38231b5ef52bd246e0a7670c211906da4b0ef912d&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/JHR25BGU4AXTQ4EHUHSWVWZM6Y.jpg?smart=true&auth=4bcdbfb7b07cc0853fec88f38231b5ef52bd246e0a7670c211906da4b0ef912d&width=400&height=224 400w, 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b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/man-charged-with-sexual-offences-against-two-sisters-fails-to-stop-trial-1.3246960">Women claim family friend assaulted them when they were aged between nine and 13</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Mary Carolan</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-06T14:17:01Z">Fri Oct 06 2017 - 15:17</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/retail-and-services/dunnes-stores-fails-in-latest-action-over-point-village-shopping-centre-1.3245913" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Dunnes Stores fails in latest action over Point Village shopping centre" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QHJ3OYZPO3O4KVHP3IPBHZNAI4.jpg?smart=true&auth=ab1473581c1b3cd62c1d0f482fa8978ba66831006cff5702d249dca9412a4d56&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QHJ3OYZPO3O4KVHP3IPBHZNAI4.jpg?smart=true&auth=ab1473581c1b3cd62c1d0f482fa8978ba66831006cff5702d249dca9412a4d56&width=200&height=112 200w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QHJ3OYZPO3O4KVHP3IPBHZNAI4.jpg?smart=true&auth=ab1473581c1b3cd62c1d0f482fa8978ba66831006cff5702d249dca9412a4d56&width=400&height=224 400w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QHJ3OYZPO3O4KVHP3IPBHZNAI4.jpg?smart=true&auth=ab1473581c1b3cd62c1d0f482fa8978ba66831006cff5702d249dca9412a4d56&width=600&height=337 600w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QHJ3OYZPO3O4KVHP3IPBHZNAI4.jpg?smart=true&auth=ab1473581c1b3cd62c1d0f482fa8978ba66831006cff5702d249dca9412a4d56&width=800&height=449 800w, https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/QHJ3OYZPO3O4KVHP3IPBHZNAI4.jpg?smart=true&auth=ab1473581c1b3cd62c1d0f482fa8978ba66831006cff5702d249dca9412a4d56&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/business/retail-and-services/dunnes-stores-fails-in-latest-action-over-point-village-shopping-centre-1.3245913">Dunnes Stores fails in latest action over Point Village shopping centre</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/retail-and-services/dunnes-stores-fails-in-latest-action-over-point-village-shopping-centre-1.3245913">High Court has refused department chain store’s application to see leases signed by other tenants</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Barry O'Halloran</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-06T04:23:38Z">Fri Oct 06 2017 - 05:23</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/opinion/state-s-approach-to-data-privacy-is-a-national-scandal-1.3246055" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="State’s approach to data privacy is a national scandal" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/VXNZ32R4N4G5BIWDE7JQJ7DUXA.jpg?smart=true&auth=5a8c9ce355ef717193cd0a459d833ad7306c89032279019d7fa2c07cd9dc9e04&width=274&height=154" 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class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/opinion/state-s-approach-to-data-privacy-is-a-national-scandal-1.3246055">State’s approach to data privacy is a national scandal</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/opinion/state-s-approach-to-data-privacy-is-a-national-scandal-1.3246055">So deep are the problems that actions for damages may be brought and convictions quashed</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> TJ McIntyre</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-06T00:00:00Z">Fri Oct 06 2017 - 01:00</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link 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href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/gravedigger-sues-over-fall-in-cemetery-on-bitter-cold-day-1.3245904">Nicky O’Brien says injuries left him out of work for months but rumours he fell in grave untrue</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-05T16:45:33Z">Thu Oct 05 2017 - 17:45</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/woman-fired-over-vulgar-emails-can-pursue-unfair-dismissal-case-1.3245831" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Woman fired over ‘vulgar emails’ can pursue unfair dismissal case" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" 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https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/5V2WVHGADWFO2PIQXFRFZ6B7W4.jpg?smart=true&auth=41e0ef05088ab2826b44f522317260496caba701e41e42a17eb0af2d99739b75&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/woman-fired-over-vulgar-emails-can-pursue-unfair-dismissal-case-1.3245831">Woman fired over ‘vulgar emails’ can pursue unfair dismissal case</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/woman-fired-over-vulgar-emails-can-pursue-unfair-dismissal-case-1.3245831">UPC terminated employment of Ann Marie Ryan on grounds of serious misconduct</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Mary Carolan</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-05T16:24:46Z">Thu Oct 05 2017 - 17:24</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/personal-finance/debtors-cannot-directly-appeal-rejected-insolvency-arrangements-1.3245695" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Debtors cannot directly appeal rejected insolvency arrangements" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/EIWNNDZV74QYIJQPEZ6KYJOUUM.jpg?smart=true&auth=c017b84e8434951624720eecaad66adb225a4de709f5d3729f489e9e2781d944&width=274&height=154" 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class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/business/personal-finance/debtors-cannot-directly-appeal-rejected-insolvency-arrangements-1.3245695">Debtors cannot directly appeal rejected insolvency arrangements</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/personal-finance/debtors-cannot-directly-appeal-rejected-insolvency-arrangements-1.3245695">High Court judge’s ruling has implications for hundreds of cases</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Mary Carolan</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-05T14:38:40Z">Thu Oct 05 2017 - 15:38</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure 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href="/news/crime-and-law/cash-for-ash-overspend-may-be-as-low-as-60m-court-told-1.3245659">Counsel for group of 500 boiler owners says claim taxpayer faces £500m bill ‘flawed’</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Alan Erwin</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-05T14:15:30Z">Thu Oct 05 2017 - 15:15</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/boy-who-fell-in-tayto-park-playground-awarded-25-000-1.3245546" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Boy who fell in Tayto Park playground awarded €25,000" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 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https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/KNIPERYBXQEAEAOYXTLTIJWI4Y.jpg?smart=true&auth=bfae0867222926fe702277fc546bb5ea5ab65a1f6a1be13fd5b1cb8cfaab843c&width=1200&height=674 1200w" sizes="30vw" width="274" height="154"/></a></figure><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text"><div class="b-flex-promo-card__text-no-overline"><h2 class="c-heading c-heading__md text-align_left"><a class="c-link font-bold" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/boy-who-fell-in-tayto-park-playground-awarded-25-000-1.3245546">Boy who fell in Tayto Park playground awarded €25,000</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/boy-who-fell-in-tayto-park-playground-awarded-25-000-1.3245546">Child fractured arm and claimed ground below tower was insufficiently covered with wood chips</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-05T12:55:14Z">Thu Oct 05 2017 - 13:55</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/channel-4-allowed-privilege-claim-in-ryanair-defamation-case-1.3245349" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Channel 4 allowed privilege claim in Ryanair defamation case" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/HS2PROZHJVXTL3PTN5QKDS7DFQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=9eec1eb05b149c6825452bd44777844105350b786a5fcf689f2120e6005aac8d&width=274&height=154" srcSet="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/HS2PROZHJVXTL3PTN5QKDS7DFQ.jpg?smart=true&auth=9eec1eb05b149c6825452bd44777844105350b786a5fcf689f2120e6005aac8d&width=200&height=112 200w, 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href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/channel-4-allowed-privilege-claim-in-ryanair-defamation-case-1.3245349">Channel 4 allowed privilege claim in Ryanair defamation case</a></h2><p class="c-paragraph"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/channel-4-allowed-privilege-claim-in-ryanair-defamation-case-1.3245349">Dispatches programme dealt with airline’s fuel policy, passengers safety and pilot conditions</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-05T09:28:06Z">Thu Oct 05 2017 - 10:28</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/homeless-family-of-seven-housed-after-months-in-hotel-1.3244021" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img 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years</a></p><div class="b-flex-promo-card__metadata"><span class="c-it-byline c-it-byline--list"><span>By</span><span> Mary Carolan</span><span class="c-separator"></span></span><time class="c-it-promo-date" dateTime="2017-10-04T13:56:36Z">Wed Oct 04 2017 - 14:56</time></div></div></div></article><article class="b-flex-promo-card b-flex-promo-card__right-left c-it-border__bottom c-it-border--mobile c-it-border--tablet c-it-border--desktop"><figure class="c-media-item"><a class="c-link b-flex-promo-card__link" href="/business/markets/conroy-gold-share-issue-should-have-no-effect-on-costs-court-hears-1.3243959" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="Conroy Gold share issue should have no effect on costs, court hears" class="c-image b-flex-promo-card__mobile-image-3-2 b-flex-promo-card__desktop-image-16-9" loading="lazy" 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People all over the world are watching this,\" he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DG6PDEZH5B6ZCYFDGYRY4QP7Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Keane's Facebook page also welled up with pre-judgment messages of support. One contributor even posted a poem in support of the campaign: <em>The New Rising Will Not Be Available Later</em> <em>in RTÉ iPlayer</em>. It isn't the most concise title, and the poem didn't appear to mention Athenry or Apple's proposed data centre at all. But hey...","type":"text"},{"_id":"4W3B6O2XKNFMBEHZ6AOFU7ZTMU","content":"Inside the courtroom, a second group of about a dozen local supporters sat on the back bench sporting big Apple stickers on their coats, lest anybody be unsure of their allegiances on this matter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WEARR747HJEIPIFGXA46QAUVSY","content":"This group calls itself Athenry4Apple, which clearly runs the risk of being confused with Keane’s separate, but similarly-named, Facebook group. But never mind, they’re all on the same side.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHDA73TJQRENHKMIHRFP7QWS4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Athenry4Apple is sometimes known as Future Looking Athenry Group, or Flag for short. Noel Doherty, a retired nurse and the group's spokesman, was also in demand amongst international media in previous days.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CXLRUE66CNC7VCNC6HEZIB6U2I","content":"“I spoke to the French last night, then I was up at 6am to get the train to Dublin this morning for this judgment.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4VLJZA5BEVB6LBK7OQFHE6VXSI","content":"How many times in recent months have you made that trip to Dublin for court hearings and cancelled court hearings since all this began?","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4J2AHE4SZHYBKD5W3WM63LPKI","content":"“I think this is my seventh,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G6MDVSMBN5DQJHMSK5EMZB6VMU","content":"It was now 11.10am. Almost showtime. The court filled up again, as the Athenry crowd in the corridor streamed back through the doors. With all the casuals and the newbies standing down the back, it felt like midnight mass.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2YCSSWRF6FHERNTIJJOISW2OFI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Allan Daly, one of the objectors who had held up the project, sat alone on a chair, making occasional notes. He looked serious, worried, pensive.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PBNURMYZFJFMBA3T3DPRPKQDVI","content":"Nobody spoke to him until Sinéad Fitzpatrick, a local Athenry solicitor who took the case alongside him, moved through the crowd just before the judgment was due. The two exchanged a few brief words, before Fitzpatrick stood to wait for the judgment, clutching her yellow notepad. Daly remained sitting.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JCD65HN6XFDOBDGCV7YN2JHDKI","content":"The judgment was promptly delivered, the applications were refused, the objectors had lost, and the matter was adjourned until next Monday to see if the objectors plan to launch an appeal.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PPZBO756F5ELTBW554Z2ZICCYU","content":"Some of the Athenry supporters looked confused as to the outcome. What just happened, asked a confused looking Keane? He turned to former attorney general Michael McDowell, who was already making his way out of court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQW7WWS2X5GENBS6UR4KMWQQVI","content":"“The objections were knocked back and the project has the go ahead,” replied McDowell, who was in court to represent the objectors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HI4DGYRFLJBBXAPFFUJOON5ILE","content":"Keane looked elated. The Athenry crowd started whispering the good news amongst themselves as the crowd left court, but there was no whooping and hollering. It was a muted, almost anti-climatic ending.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEI26IJ75RBQJLRJDOROU5UJXY","content":"“We have to respect the court,” said Doherty, before making a hand gesture, mimicking the drinking of a pint,to another man across the room.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2D24UDCJ5VFDJNHX6NKYAFSJAQ","content":"Canney whipped out his mobile phone to text the Taoiseach: “Just got confirmation... The decision was to refuse the applications.... We’ll find out Monday whether there are appeals...”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NLXAOROLQNH6DOZWEKYQNKYOIM","content":"Varadkar responded that it was “great news” and mused about whether there would be appeals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J3EFJI7YABDMDJAUBKNFWNWPHI","content":"Outside the building, the Athenry4Apple group was cheering, posing for photographs and giving radio interviews.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WDWKSRB2SRFDNIW6J46F26U22Q","content":"The sun streamed through the leaves of the trees beside the Liffey. And it shone too, presumably, on Athenry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T4ICVYZ4YRHFBDXYVXCNX2Q2FU","content":"************","type":"text"},{"_id":"GIP4XUQHZRFQBFDDFFEZTS76VE","additional_properties":{},"content":"FOOTNOTES","type":"header"},{"_id":"VAOPOVX2DJFIZG4QTLHMZ3DNCY","additional_properties":{},"content":"There was a strong desire to end the boardroom row at Independent News & Media in recent weeks, as talks continued between representatives of chief executive Robert Pitt and chairman Leslie Buckley, who fell out over the price tag for a proposed bid for Newstalk.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TDIYUE4DMVBCDDSS53SDR75THI","content":"It has now been announced that Pitt is to leave the business... on Friday the 13th, unlucky for some. But in the context of INM, unlucky for whom, exactly?","type":"text"},{"_id":"ONO6H5ZXHND27NJZNNLKS6SJGU","content":"The row, which rumbled on for almost 18 months, was one of the most bitter and extraordinary boardroom spats at an Irish listed company, and a gift to Irish business journalism.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OPXB32XJSNDVFNXJBUW6V6TKA4","content":"Pitt dug in at INM, and put himself in a fairly bullet proof position while the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement investigates the circumstances surrounding his whistleblower complaint about Buckley.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WOTXE7N6QFADFAR3E6Y4NXTIB4","content":"Denis O’Brien, whom Buckley represents on INM’s board, is the largest shareholder at INM. He would not have wanted to see his chairman walking away. Pitt surprised everybody by how long he managed to remain in situ.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VVMZAFKLGJGEXBHVFNSYKI66WI","content":"But will his departure on Friday mean we are to be denied a public denouement to the row?","type":"text"},{"_id":"27OSMSH72VAWVINAJ5R7FKHCPE","content":"You can bet your bottom euro that the deal came gift-wrapped in gagging clauses and non-disclosure agreements.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5TFERPZZTVBL3KXYGD6VRQSQAE","content":"What do Buckley and Pitt really think of each other? We will probably never know.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CFEWR5XRXJDB3PNFX3SKY6OMTU","content":"*****","type":"text"},{"_id":"2E7ON5ADQJDBFAMJBCM3MD5MKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Declan Ganley's co-chief executive at Rivada Networks, his mostly US-based telecommunications infrastructure provider, is leaving to join toymaker Mattel. Joseph Euteneuer will become the Barbie-maker's chief financial officer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YE5QSXNDABBDNIC7QICIFJDROM","content":"Rivada, meanwhile, is battling hard to win business from US states that may opt out of the US’s new federal communications network for first responders, FirstNet, which is to be built by rival company AT&T.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BB72X6M2RFA3DOC3OIREJ6HQFI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Rivada will testify next Thursday at a public hearing over FirstNet in Pennsylvania, although there is no word on whether Ganley will make an appearance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5IYN77QQ2ZDG3C4F6EUF7APYEQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The company also has designs on stepping up to the mark in Vermont and New Hampshire, amongst other states.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Mark Paul"}},"name":"Mark Paul"}]},"description":{"basic":"Approval for the €850 million Athenry data centre has been a long time coming"},"display_date":"2017-10-13T10:59:42Z","headlines":{"basic":"Caveat: a delay, a decision, a text to Leo: Apple gets the go-ahead"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"PVQQBBUG4XN4ELRWIJ74WOYFNQ","auth":{"1":"afcc428ace410a58b2e38cfe0301feed82e14eff31453990ad9f51a8d85138ca"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/PVQQBBUG4XN4ELRWIJ74WOYFNQ.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"6HGUTLY5PIAZZSKE6JKPQOHHSQ","embed_html":"<div class=\"powa\" id=\"powa-6HGUTLY5PIAZZSKE6JKPQOHHSQ\" data-org=\"irishtimes\" data-env=\"prod\" data-uuid=\"6HGUTLY5PIAZZSKE6JKPQOHHSQ\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.562\" data-api=\"prod\"><script src=\"//irishtimes.video-player.arcpublishing.com/prod/powaBoot.js?org=irishtimes\"><\/script></div>","promo_items":{"basic":{"auth":{"1":"048dfb998b6b8da769433e5bf3284dc1caa924b70070ae19b95d6470ce32ded4"},"type":"image","url":"https://d2j5ip5u6h2g6o.cloudfront.net/10-22-2021/t_07a9007603ba4a5395125f8c4e8943c7_name_1795463433001_5607212335001_5607197745001_.jpg"}},"type":"video"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Technology"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/technology/caveat-a-delay-a-decision-a-text-to-leo-apple-gets-the-go-ahead-1.3253980","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/technology","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Technology"}}}},{"_id":"PN4ELUJ6BUR6TUJVW6H32HIKME","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/business/media-and-marketing/denis-o-brien-loses-court-appeal-over-red-flag-dossier-1.3254952","content_elements":[{"_id":"IP7AIYNZ4ZGBBPHTUF6IGNW2RE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Denis O'Brien has failed to get court orders directing Red Flag Consulting to give him documents that might disclose the identity of its client for an allegedly damaging dossier about him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"V2M4SSSVWZA6JMJF2TIAEVWHJM","content":"Mr O’Brien was entitled to know if the client is his “absolute sworn number one enemy in the world”, his counsel, Michael Cush SC, had argued. The businessman wanted the identity for reasons including possible proceedings against the client.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O5URLJOSUFCZXOELMMX24FVK34","content":"Red Flag denies defamation or conspiracy or that Mr O’Brien suffered harm or loss from the dossier. It has also raised issues concerning his claim he got the dossier anonymously from a USB stick in an envelope left in his Dublin offices in October 2015.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DMH2NU4Q5VHQFBHNYQ5V3JRT7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"A three-judge Court of Appeal on Friday dismissed Mr O'Brien's appeals over the High Court refusal of discovery of the client's identity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O4XQPKO4RGDVMITTA7AQOELYQ","content":"The identity was not relevant for determination of his case against Red Flag and some of its executives and staff, with the effect he had not met the legal test for discovery, it ruled.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EVPBR53M4JFQVDSOI5PFH7DS6M","content":"A cross-appeal by Red Flag over orders requiring it discover documents relating to its communications with the client about the dossier, with the client’s name redacted, was also dismissed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4C7AF7XTW5F6VHWCXQLVQ4BHM4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The president of the Court of Appeal, Mr Justice Sean Ryan, with Mr Justice Michael Peart and Mr Justice Gerard Hogan, said Mr O'Brien's claim against Red Flag is of conspiracy to damage him in a variety of ways, including defamation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4R3WN6SQJGLPPNB65ZYMDENVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Client’s identity","type":"header"},{"_id":"PTWPOTGQZJA2FK3BSEF2TBHH2A","content":"The “simple” issue in this appeal was if the client’s identity would enable Mr O’Brien to advance his own case or damage the defendant’s case. He could not see how the client’s name could give rise to a deduction of intent to collect and publish untrue material, or conspire to do so.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GWRRFZ4BNBHFHHZGOAFTO5VPYM","content":"Compilation of the dossier in itself was not sufficient to establish a conspiracy on the part of that client, or to demonstrate Red Flag was a co-conspirator with the client.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DAM6RNZBPNCRLB5WPJBP2DWW2A","content":"Mr O’Brien was not entitled to ascertain the client’s identity by seeking discovery from Red Flag. Mr O’Brien had failed to show the discovery sought was relevant, directly or indirectly, to the matters at issue between the sides in this case and was not entitled to discovery based on “pure speculation”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2DVNKI6KLJE4NKMJXPQQ5HGXYA","content":"The “fundamental point” is that Red Flag’s client was free to collect and/or publish material critical of Mr O’Brien even if this was done “for the basest of motives”. The client could also engage others to do that, subject to doing so lawfully.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRRWK7SWCFFD7A6NJKHHPF6LHA","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘Thickets of confusion’","type":"header"},{"_id":"XWN3EE4WR5DZPPVUPSBI763VLM","content":"If material hostile to a person is published and they sue, truth is a full defence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GYW4RORO7FANVJHM74RGT7NSUE","content":"If the dossier was actually published by Red Flag, and it defamed Mr O’Brien, he has a remedy under the Defamation Act 2009. Mr O’Brien had not provided evidence of actual publication of the dossier to justify discovery, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4SEE2LQ54JGV3CQATZWL2FN6EU","content":"He was at a loss to understand, through “all the thickets of confusion” in this case, how precisely the unnamed client was to be indicted for conspiracy or defamation. The time limit for any defamation case against the client would expire this month, he noted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FTY2HHX2V5FBHFF2NZLB72LC6E","content":"He also refused discovery on grounds Mr O’Brien had lost an earlier High Court application also aimed at getting the client’s identity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CBM7OK7T6RG4TBWVTH267XWM5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"After the judgment, Frank Beatty SC, for Mr O'Brien, said his client would consider whether to seek an appeal to the Supreme Court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IP5MSTEAG5DFXKKLBZK3V3HROY","content":"Because the main appeals were by Mr O’Brien, and Red Flag’s cross-appeal was “relatively insignificant”, the court proposed awarding costs against Mr O’Brien, with a stay on payment pending final determination of the case. 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It is understood that Michael Doorly, the company secretary and chief risk officer at Independent News & Media, will take over as interim chief executive. Mark Paul has the details and we will be keeping an eye on any further developments today.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWT4L3FGLJB3PFZ76CSPYBPJPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/president-told-of-uk-s-challenge-to-securing-post-brexit-deals-1.3254156\">Australian political leaders</a> have told President Michael D Higgins that they see the United Kingdom's chances of creating new post-Brexit trade agreements as \"extraordinarily difficult.\" Simon Carswell reports from Melbourne. On the same trip outdoor clothing maker Portwest announced it had bought an Australian firm for 10 million euros.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MDKWW7IF6NBV3HFR2GNKIV4RGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Barry O'Halloran charts the confusion emerging over the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/storm-clouds-gather-over-stamp-duty-increase-1.3253688\">6 per cent stamp duty levied</a> on commercial property transactions brought in by Paschal Donohoe in Budget 2018.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HPSZYKQWZVHO5DFREDN3IGXPTE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mark Paul meets <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/how-dunnes-move-is-helping-james-whelan-butchers-up-the-stakes-1.3252491\">Pat Whelan</a>, the man behind the up-market butcher's shop chain, James Whelan, which is now owned by Dunnes Stores.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUKWEQ5TS5D7FNE6EIMU5AYGQI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/three-barred-from-disclosing-information-about-aircraft-lessor-1.3254290\">Aviation financier Howard Millar</a>and two others attempted divert business away from their employer, aircraft leasing group, Stellwagen, it was claimed in the High Court. Barry O'Halloran reports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JAPTO7AOJRFOFJIB4W3V5IZMIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/homes-and-property/buying-house-number-13-lucky-for-some-1.3253833\">Who says 13 is all bad news</a>? Homes at number 13 are typically 4,335 euro cheaper than the average Irish property. Peter Hamilton reports.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5E4AAOIOHRGUPPRY7O3STKL2VM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/minding-your-manners-at-home-and-abroad-1.3251034\">Manners maketh the success</a> story. Olive Keogh on why being well-behaved is good for your career. Plus, why focus can be a bad thing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PZ4TSCJYBRCOFN7ENAWJB7Z4AI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/john-fitzgerald-budget-2018-contains-missed-opportunities-1.3253870\">John FitzGerald</a> on the missed opportunities in Budget 2018","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4IXYZY4NNCJVMD4HXUTH6BDJI","additional_properties":{},"content":"From being a high-flying stockbroker in San Francisco, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/work/wild-geese-from-old-bawn-to-big-sur-1.3250776\">Fiachra O'Sullivan</a> took a second career as a relationship expert and therapist.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CMK6GOKWD5D4VM63BYH7CEYQWA","content":"Have a good weekend,","type":"text"},{"_id":"6TDKEGVGBVDDHOQMTPYGGOHRZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sign up here for our daily <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/newsletters\">Business Today</a> email digest.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Conn Ó Midheach"}},"name":"Conn Ó Midheach"}]},"description":{"basic":"Business Today: The best news, analysis and comment from ‘The Irish Times’ business desk"},"display_date":"2017-10-13T06:26:56Z","headlines":{"basic":"Pitt leaves INM; ‘extraordinarily difficult’ Brexit deals and why 13 is a lucky number (for some)"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"EEEATPBBNOR3GZTDNIKXQYXOFU","auth":{"1":"1efec009b3d2a4763f6ec5f2948d130be818217dd4dc950d5a267a13615d6e07"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/EEEATPBBNOR3GZTDNIKXQYXOFU.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/pitt-leaves-inm-extraordinarily-difficult-brexit-deals-and-why-13-is-a-lucky-number-for-some-1.3254836","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Business"}}}},{"_id":"DN46NPKKFFOZCUEWRMS6EXQ32Q","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/business/transport-and-tourism/three-barred-from-disclosing-information-about-aircraft-lessor-1.3254290","content_elements":[{"_id":"37QQLQTVJRBY5NE55EO3V7V4BI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Aviation financier Howard Millar and two others attempted to divert business away from their employer, aircraft leasing group Stellwagen, it was claimed in the High Court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQ3ADV43MFAUFFZCMSKBUB255E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Millar, who was former Ryanair chief financial officer, Edward Hansom and Edward Coughlan, left Dublin- and US-based Stellwagen last month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DL55D7JCIVGGRCV4E65LHHDC5Q","content":"The High Court issued a series of interim orders on Thursday barring all three from disclosing information on Stellwagen to others and from interfering in its relationship with clients, investors, staff or commercial partners.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IO5FNGWGJVF4VPZ3YFM5M4IKXQ","content":"The court also prohibited the three from representing the company, which provides airlines with finance to buy aircraft, or from deleting information or data belonging to it. Stellwagen sought the orders at a hearing that did not involve its three former executives.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6PQKNY24WRGEZIFDJPHXW6A33Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Its chief executive, Douglas Brennan, alleges in an affidavit that the group discovered a \"concerted\" effort by the three to divert valuable business away from their employer, in direct conflict with their legal obligations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EQET2S2AVJHPVGKT6VXHWSDENI","content":"Mr Brennan states that this began with their co-ordinated resignations on September 4th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CFWLPOML5FD3J5C2NSVUQXSTQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Millar, Mr Hansom and Mr Coughlan will have an opportunity to respond on Tuesday next, when the matter is due back before the High Court. The interim orders apply until then.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KX6V2NE3RRAYVOTLW3LUPY2IKU","content":"Mr Brennan’s affidavit indicates that Mr Millar maintains that the company constructively dismissed him at a meeting on August 31st. 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One is that when people are determined to make fools of themselves, the wisest course is generally just to let them at it. The whole thing brings to mind the scene in <em>Fawlty Towers</em> in which Basil beats his own car with the branch of a tree. It's hysterical.","type":"text"},{"_id":"44VO5TPIJ5DI3FHJ6CAV4POJFQ","content":"The other is that this is a classic exercise in distraction. Page one of the Little Book of Crisis Management: when you’re in a mess of your own making, scream “Look! 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It bears on the mood of fear in Irish journalism, on the regulation of broadcasting and on the broader political discourse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XXKNFPUPC5FZFMY22Z4NRHAS54","type":"quote"},{"_id":"5F3R5DDOGFBTLBCC2CRBFPNMDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Firstly, I wrote that column about Newstalk because I can and other journalists can't. I am white, male, long established and well paid. Most importantly, I know that when I write something that causes trouble, <em>The Irish Times</em> will stand by me. I know this because in almost 30 years of writing this column, not once has an editor refused to publish what I've written because he or she did not like what I said or because it might offend some powerful person. And when trouble duly comes, the paper backs me up. This is as it should be. But it's not as it is for everyone, especially for young journalists working in non-unionised companies on temporary contracts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I3DXPWVSNZEKBDDRDIR63R36YE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Imagine, for example, that my column had appeared in one of the many newspapers published by Independent News and Media (INM), in which Denis O'Brien is also the leading shareholder. Would Communicorp's demand for a grovelling apology, and for the column to be deleted from the web, have been refused? I like to think it would: INM has many excellent editors who value the principles of editorial independence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OPFCEFHJOVC5BGLHNJGI73WVAI","content":"But imagine, then, that the author of the column was a freelance and that Denis O’Brien called her – as he called me last week – “a nasty journalist” whose work “needs to be stamped out in Ireland”. Would she feel she had much of a future there?","type":"text"},{"_id":"PGNXJH5B6RAQTHAC3YDGNQE7DU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Diversity of voices","type":"header"},{"_id":"7EHTKSL5C5AN3DU4I7FWPMREFU","additional_properties":{},"content":"This is not an abstract question. The most unfunny aspect of this whole affair is the sudden cancellation of Dil Wickremasinghe's <em>Global Village</em> programme on Newstalk. The programme has been a great haven for the diversity of voices seldom heard in Irish public discourse. It means that when all else about this business is forgotten, what will be remembered by aspiring journalists is that George Hook is still working for Newstalk and that Dil Wickremasinghe, who issued a very measured statement critical of his comments about rape, is not. That is a powerful lesson – and a fearful one.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OIGYVMIJEZFPLJUUGGQ3CEKC3E","content":"The second important thing about the fatwa is that it blows apart one of the assumptions of the licensing regime for Irish radio. The concern that the only two independent national talk radio stations are owned in effect by the same person has been countered by the assurance that Newstalk and Today FM are, editorially, entirely independent entities. They are supposed to be competing with each other. But by including Today FM (which has nothing at all to do with the original issue) in its fatwa, Communicorp has shamelessly declared this separation a fiction. The station is not free to make its own editorial decisions after all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3VXFC6Q3BVBAPKKAYABP5AZGLU","additional_properties":{},"content":"High Court","type":"header"},{"_id":"RODBCFBTCJFENIDOFBHA5GFZG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Finally, there is a bigger context to all of this. This autumn alone, Denis O'Brien will be appealing the High Court's dismissal of his case against the State over statements made by two TDs in the Dáil about his banking affairs. His separate case for alleged defamation against Red Flag Consulting will continue in the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He is perfectly entitled to use the law to stop what he clearly sees as unfair criticism or overly intrusive scrutiny. There is no doubt that he is genuinely upset and affronted by criticism of his companies by journalists or TDs and that he finds it personally intolerable.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JBNKPDVHSRCYFFKIUI6VO2XFQA","content":"Most media owners, merely out of self-interest, tend to take a wide view of freedom of expression. But Denis O’Brien is not one of them; he is temperamentally disinclined to do so. 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She did not answer requests for comment this week and informed <em>The Irish Times</em> through a Courts Service spokesman that she had nothing to say on the matter. Mr Justice Kelly did not return requests for comment either.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OLCKYZG5IFEYBCKOVV7IUXBETU","content":"According to four judicial sources Mr Justice Kelly had to make late arrangements to cover several High Court matters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MA4Q3L6REZA3HKTE6LEWRFXM64","content":"“[The early departure] is a massive headache. 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Some undisputed evidence, including that the girl and the chaplain shared a bed during a school trip to Gambia, and some medical evidence supported her case.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S4KUARAO2JAZPCWMZRIO4WJKWM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Grooming","type":"header"},{"_id":"N7TEPAARA5DLTOYM45IVTBB3PY","content":"The woman was groomed by the defendant, the judge said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LES5KEFGSZF77JZTUCRYHMAAWY","content":"The grooming consisted of sexualised behaviour and the judge said he accepted the woman’s evidence that her relationship with the chaplain developed into a sexual relationship whilst at all material times she was a schoolgirl.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7RCOFNABBJDGFO6JRVOWAPBAUQ","content":"The mental trauma suffered by the woman was not confined solely to the acts of assault and false imprisonment, but also from the consequences of breach of trust by a man who played such an important role in her schooling and local community, the judge said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KULHBPE5YVHCXN5DXESGGIKH6E","content":"During the case, the woman said that on a school trip to Gambia when she was 16 years old, the chaplain invited her and another student to sleep in his bed with him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ZANUIJH5VDF5L25E7TMARE56M","content":"He first kissed her after she turned 17. The sexual element between them progressed and they had oral sex about 35 times.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NBT2W4D5WFAMLASRPNS27APYW4","additional_properties":{},"content":"She said they had oral sex on a youth trip to Cologne, Germany, to see the pope, and also in the chaplain's school office, his bedroom, his car and the school oratory.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBFWXAYGS5FBFON5B46KLM7HBU","content":"She had sued the chaplain, the school and the local bishop.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KUUONMT4Q5BVZK3Q4WOKHWDMJY","content":"The judge found the chaplain was liable for the abuse and the school vicariously liable on grounds that its failure to adequately monitor his behaviour allowed an inappropriate relationship to develop into an abusive relationship.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIR3RGHWU5DTVANTIV6OJUSLIE","content":"The judge found, on the balance of probabilities, the woman’s injuries would not have occurred but for the negligence of the school and it should have foreseen that the intimacy and 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She was subjected to “debilitating and humiliating” treatment on a daily basis of a “petty and mean” kind which had the accumulated effect of undermining her health and ability to return to work.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZD3D5HB7QFEX3IQUY75YHWFLUE","content":"Her co-workers were primarily responsible for this and her employer allowed it “continue unchecked” and offered her “minimal” support in dealing with a deteriorating situation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FAI2WGG66VCGDNYKSTBHPULADE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Angry workforce","type":"header"},{"_id":"GP5S5IKC4NHWPLVUEACLJRMGVI","content":"Management was faced with a very angry workforce which had stopped work and circulated a petition in support of their suspended colleague who, he noted, had been subject to complaints over three earlier but less serious incidents which were not related to Ms Hurley.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TK5ISTDBYZBTHCDS7XEJOHS5DY","content":"She was left by her employer to “ride out the storm” in the hope it would pass but it did not.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UVZ5J64AQJC23JQP2NALBFJTWE","content":"An Post, as employer, was liable for the bullying and harassment experienced form her co-workers in the course of her employment of which it was aware and had a duty to address but failed to do so in any meaningful way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DIJ5UYZXTBF5ZAJ2GDF6B2YW5A","content":"The judge accepted that Ms Hurley’s health suffered as a result of what happened and neck spasm and other symptoms described by her were the likely product of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FGXXCXX3WRD2NG2T3QGIXQXPF4","content":"The health damage was reasonably foreseeable by An Post which failed until July or August 2008 to invoke a code providing for a formal investigative process for complaints of workplace bullying and harassment. 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In a new, unfamiliar country where they may lack the local language, social networks or an independent source of income, they live each day knowing that tomorrow could bring either the promise of long-term protection or the blow of a formal deportation letter. It’s a uniquely vulnerable position – one made all the more difficult for those who arrive after dangerous journeys, or bearing the trauma that caused them to flee home in the first place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NASXJ6VRVVFPBJU65YXYAGQLEU","content":"That vulnerability, and the voicelessness that goes with it, make it essential that the State pay special regard to the needs of those who come here seeking protection. Unfortunately, the centrepiece of the Republic’s asylum policy – direct provision – has been a stain on the State since its adoption in 2000. The system, under which refugee applicants are provided with accommodation, meals and a small weekly allowance but precluded from paid work, has been a boon to private accommodation providers – eight contractors were paid a total of €43.5 million last year alone – but it has left thousands of asylum seekers living in unacceptable conditions, at risk of mental health problems and in effect consigned to poverty. Chronic delays have meant that asylum seekers have spent years in these conditions.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SJELXY5SH6GSAGFGH2N567JELY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JKNQCNQRZFDYVDPS3X3URRBNPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Scandalously late though they were, some advances have been made in recent times. The International Protection Act 2015 allows asylum seekers apply for all forms of protection in one application. It has had a positive effect. In 2005, 36 per cent of applicants were in direct provision for three years or less; today it's 72 per cent. The trend is in the right direction, but waiting times must be shortened further. Of the recommendations contained in a 2015 report by retired judge Bryan McMahon, 98 per cent have been implemented fully or in part.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NPU5B5CE3NEDLMTD6XDPK46WLI","additional_properties":{},"content":"But major problems remain to be addressed. Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan spoke last week of the potential for new partnerships between the State and not-for-profit groups in providing services for asylum seekers. That would be welcome, but only if the State is serious about funding those services adequately rather than simply foisting its own responsibilities onto the charity sector.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4EW6ME36Q5BNDBQ2K3WN2KKMD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"More urgent still is the need to end the ban on asylum seekers joining the labour market. Governments have long been told that the blanket ban was harmful and wrong, but earlier this year the Supreme Court said it was also unconstitutional. That has focussed minds, and last week Flanagan said that at least some adult asylum seekers would soon have the right to work. If past form on asylum is any guide, the Government will offer the bare minimum. 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She learned from Gsoc that a garda had accessed the Garda computer system in January 2011 and had provided details to a summons server.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2NZA3DAPUJCGXAQXXC5PDOBZEI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Disciplinary papers","type":"header"},{"_id":"5GTTORYVEBHANHLQIYRFSXT7NE","content":"Gsoc had served the garda with disciplinary papers but the member concerned had denied accessing the computer. As it was possible that another member had accessed it using a different member’s ID, Gsoc concluded it was not possible to identify the person and the investigation was closed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MQPE4GWIYNAYHIEDKM4QI5PML4","content":"The woman sued for personal injury, claiming, among other things, breach of confidence/privacy, misfeasance in public office and intentional or reckless infliction of emotional pain and suffering.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L5OSDUDCMBB7FFOPRBDVWV64IE","content":"The defendants applied to Mr Justice Noonan to have the case dismissed on grounds it showed no reasonable cause of action, was frivolous/vexatious and/or bound to fail.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LUWFPXYTJVDQFEJD4MKLMWXA4I","content":"The defendants argued they had a duty to disclose her address under the Garda Síochána Act 2005 which provides for exceptions to disclosure of personal data where gardaí can co-operate with State agencies and other bodies with the objectives including the vindication of the human rights of each individual.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VROCEPBVVZFVHC3FZJFSDECTLA","content":"They also claimed the woman had not pleaded any loss known to law as anxiety does not amount to a recognised psychiatric illness.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5VGDZMQ7TBHBFGN4DG4RHKAGOQ","content":"Mr Justice Noonan ruled the woman had raised a number of legal questions which needed to be addressed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BUMH6SNY4RFMFNRO45FRGNXXCM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Legal obligation","type":"header"},{"_id":"YGOSVS47GFB6PGBHAHDSO6DNJE","content":"It was arguable gardaí did not have a legal obligation to disclose the information or that it was not necessary for the administration of justice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"47S22WC5YZA23JELPVSH5OIYHU","content":"It might be reasonably argued the correct course would have been for gardaí to only disclose on foot of a court order which could be formulated to protect her address from being made known to her attacker, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"747QOJPUWJADTM42YBSNUGOQNA","content":"He also rejected the argument that the woman had no actionable damage claim. While anxiety is not a recognised psychiatric illness, depression is, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BGRKSRZ6DJFQJDPNOVACONZRTU","content":"Her claim she suffered from headaches as a result of the disclosure is also a form of personal injury for which compensation is frequently awarded, he said.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"description":{"basic":"Woman had moved house but details accessed through Garda computer system"},"display_date":"2017-10-06T16:12:45Z","headlines":{"basic":"Rape victim can sue State over disclosure of address to attacker, court says"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"XFZXJSXP2JSBK3TFYN2FXIYASQ","auth":{"1":"4948fe165d7809935560844c5472b12da6e080355d0f8aac6d334c5fc9f780d0"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/XFZXJSXP2JSBK3TFYN2FXIYASQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Courts"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/rape-victim-can-sue-state-over-disclosure-of-address-to-attacker-court-says-1.3247066","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/crime-law/courts","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Courts"}}}},{"_id":"ZMSYWGMBBH5OJL72APHBSJJXLI","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/judge-refers-inconsistencies-in-man-s-income-to-revenue-1.3246934","content_elements":[{"_id":"4RY4QUSNLZDIDDJNVGIAOP47CU","additional_properties":{},"content":"A High Court judge has referred what he described as \"inconsistencies\" concerning the income of a man to the Revenue Commissioners' investigations unit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D4V4EMNDCNAFNCVUKQ5HPSYKQY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Justice Brian McGovern had last July found Ben Gilroy in contempt of court and indicated he was considering imposing a community service order in lieu of three months in prison. This was in proceedings where a bank was seeking to enforce a €3.2 million judgment against another man.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGLHFDYCK5DG3OUP66GBYLIUH4","content":"When the matter returned before the court on Friday, the judge said a report from the Probation Service deemed Mr Gilroy was a suitable candidate for 80 hours of community service.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZWE6A7NBNFFPNJFJESWCCVCPEU","content":"An “inconsistency” had arisen that concerned the court, he said. When the matter was before him in July, Mr Gilroy had said he was not employed or in receipt of income, which resulted in the court granting him legal aid for the contempt proceedings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D6HZME2VJBCJNLWECDPCUWRXLM","content":"The probation report stated Mr Gilroy was in full-time employment, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XW3ALQ5V7FB7FPL6ADRMSVMYSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"As the court had \"neither the time nor the resources\" to look into this matter, he was referring the case to Revenue's investigation unit. The Director of Public Prosecutions could liaise with Revenue in regard to the investigation and take steps if there was any evidence of a false declaration, he added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z43BX6H74NH6ZLBASBS2ASRAZ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘Flip-flopping’","type":"header"},{"_id":"2KTNJOPLR5FBZAAYJHEE7ZGDVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"There had been another example of Mr Gilroy \"flip-flopping\" during the proceedings, he also said. Mr Gilroy had said he did not have a passport and had also said he wanted to go on holidays to Spain. Mr Gilroy could not travel to Spain without a passport, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGVMR2O4IRGKHO27MW5BB3NFTA","content":"Giollaiosa Ó Lideadha SC, for Mr Gilroy, said his instructions are his client “does not have any income”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RIDO335LBVFIDLNP6TXAHVSO4Q","content":"The contempt proceedings related to Mr Gilroy having accused the court of “criminal intimidation and threats” and comparing the action of a court to that of a thief putting a gun to his head and robbing him of his wallet. He said this in a sworn statement in proceedings by Allied Irish Banks seeking to enforce a €3.2 million judgment against another man.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QNIW36VMKBH2PAXNVO3MZKMHNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Gilroy, Riverview, Athlumney Abbey, Navan, Co Meath, alleged he was threatened by members of a \"semi-secretive society\" wearing wigs and black cloaks who believe they are \"superior to other members of society\" and who act in a clandestine fashion \"to hide their criminality\".","type":"text"},{"_id":"DZUPXEJ5OFD7FO3U2ZEI44XFIM","content":"Last July, the judge said Mr Gilroy had accused the judge of being “in breach of his oath of office” and of taking part in, and allowing criminal activity to take place in front of him.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RTON7WHYMVF2VGX7XBIOGVAZ7U","additional_properties":{},"content":"The affidavit also contained further threats against the judge and the solicitor and counsel for AIB, plaintiff in the proceedings, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLDUTYQUOBGY3NMDN4CPIFNB7U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Attack on the court","type":"header"},{"_id":"BN5EZGRIFNBXVDTERBPZQX5COE","content":"Mr Justice McGovern said Mr Gilroy’s affidavit was “nothing short of a direct attack on the court and the administration of justice” and was calculated to bring the administration of justice into disrepute and diminish the authority of the court.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JNILUMD5WBF5RDPFL7IZMU5N3Y","content":"It was an aggravating factor Mr Gilroy had set his views out in an affidavit and not “in the heat of the moment”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K2AIVDMMTVHGHHMI4HKATZZGNY","content":"However, Mr Gilroy admitted criminal contempt and had apologised and consented to a community service order, he noted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HE6VGPZREFE3LEXL5SNYFG4QBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Gilroy provided the affidavit in AIB's proceedings seeking to enforce a €3.25 million judgment obtained against Seamus McQuaid, of Crumlin, Silverstream, Co Monaghan. During those proceedings, the bank alleged civil contempt and applied for attachment and committal to prison of Mr McQuaid, Mr Gilroy, and a third man, Charles McGuinness, of Tully House, Monaghan.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4LYVULFSSVAK5P7SYBSJGWCQJM","content":"The proceedings will return before the court later this month.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NT6OYFMDFVBHPGVNKET7PY2GPI","content":"<em>This article was edited on March 16th, 2018.</em>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Aodhan O’Faolain"}]},"description":{"basic":"Man had been found in contempt of court in July"},"display_date":"2017-10-06T14:24:57Z","headlines":{"basic":"Judge refers ‘inconsistencies’ in man's income to Revenue"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"PNHQAH6WZF32URPMVDLZ7A64BA","auth":{"1":"07f80233d2d2e18d20ed8f293f1b45a46c340718442ddb8e8eb0599701eeea4b"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/PNHQAH6WZF32URPMVDLZ7A64BA.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Courts"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/judge-refers-inconsistencies-in-man-s-income-to-revenue-1.3246934","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/crime-law/courts","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Courts"}}}},{"_id":"KRMVUNNHOPCKJRGQJLIV5DQ7ZQ","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/man-charged-with-sexual-offences-against-two-sisters-fails-to-stop-trial-1.3246960","content_elements":[{"_id":"K7APCHAECBAVBKPL46T5IPATOA","additional_properties":{},"content":"A man charged with sexual offences against two sisters when they were young children has failed to get High Court orders stopping his trial.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KT7QFRZYANGHRFV5K33DRYFLRY","content":"In opposing the man’s claim that his trial should not proceed due to delay of some 40 years in making their complaints, the sisters said the delay was for reasons including trying to protect their widowed mother.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CUWTEPRLXRGSXD7KHSCT73CSK4","content":"Their mother had mental health issues, had told one sister that the man, a family friend, had raped her and also tried to kill herself on a number of occasions, it was claimed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KQXXCFSKPRFANFMXJIFFZM36YU","content":"Now in his early 70s, the man is charged with a total of 29 indecent assault offences against the sisters on dates relating to the period 1967-71 when they were aged between nine and 13. He was put on notice of their allegations in July 2014 and arrested and charged in 2015.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6WI5HWHYHBCI7JSQBOWBGBAIJM","content":"A third sister also alleged the man indecently assaulted her when she was aged about four or five but the DPP has not prosecuted in relation to those claims.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLEIDDUTXJAF5NLFPADWIM7AGE","content":"In judicial review proceedings aimed at stopping his trial, the man denied all the charges and also denied the claims by the third sister or having raped their mother. He had a “good friendly relationship” with the mother which continued for a time after the alleged abuse, he claimed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LAIJ3YRRGNFETOUSQYVJUCOUII","content":"He claimed the sisters deliberately chose to delay making complaints to gardaí, after having discussed the alleged abuse between them some decades ago, until after their mother had died.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HALYG3UR3RGQ3DM6VLPH5ZFMUU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Right to fair trial","type":"header"},{"_id":"2Z6JF7XTRFDC5HJEW4EQYC3PPQ","content":"He said that prejudiced his right to a fair trial for reasons including, he claimed, the mother would have given evidence the rape claim in relation to her was false.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TO5IRHRRIZBOTHNSIDDY7EKLZM","content":"In her judgment, Ms Justice Una Ní Raifeartaigh said the evidence did not support his claim that the sisters deliberately delayed making their complaints to ensure their mother would never be able to give evidence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GT33WIRS7VF75CWORPXMX3BOVA","content":"The evidence suggests their intention was to protect their mother from the stresses of a trial, who apparently had poor mental health since they were children, she said. It was not clear if the mother would ever have been able to give evidence given her history of mental illness. In the event, the complaints were made before her death but at a time when she had reached a state of incapacity such that she would not be a competent witness.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E7FNACJEJJASFAANBW3LPLCPKQ","content":"The evidence indicated the mother’s alleged claims she was raped by the man appeared to have been circulating within the family as far back as the 1990s, when it appeared no criminal complaint was being contemplated, and there would be no apparent benefit to anyone to falsity such a rape allegation, she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7S6IVONMT5GKDKLQFBIIJ5TZDI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Far-fetched","type":"header"},{"_id":"QNG2XOQUBVEUHNN7BGKTZE4CGY","content":"It seemed “far-fetched” for the man to suggest there was a real possibility the mother, if she could give evidence, would have definitely stated she was not raped by him. The issue of whether that rape happened was also a collateral issue in the trial as the assault charges concerned the two daughters.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HHHX7EKY7VFLRMCGL2JWH4IMV4","content":"She also refused to halt the trial on age and health grounds. A 2016 report of a cardiac surgeon had stated the man had made an “excellent” recovery following bypass heart surgery and he was not at the “extreme” end of the age spectrum in such cases.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C4W2FK2ZLVELZCL4JJDF3UOAPU","content":"While the grounds did not merit preventing this trial before it begins, the trial judge would undoubtedly have regard to the lapse of time and will be able to monitor the trial as it unfolds, she added.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Mary Carolan"}},"name":"Mary Carolan"}]},"description":{"basic":"Women claim family friend assaulted them when they were aged between nine and 13"},"display_date":"2017-10-06T14:17:01Z","headlines":{"basic":"Man charged with sexual offences against two sisters fails to stop trial"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"JHR25BGU4AXTQ4EHUHSWVWZM6Y","auth":{"1":"4bcdbfb7b07cc0853fec88f38231b5ef52bd246e0a7670c211906da4b0ef912d"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/JHR25BGU4AXTQ4EHUHSWVWZM6Y.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Courts"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/man-charged-with-sexual-offences-against-two-sisters-fails-to-stop-trial-1.3246960","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/crime-law/courts","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Courts"}}}},{"_id":"B3QHUTLER4QNHKXDY4PBGF65IM","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/business/retail-and-services/dunnes-stores-fails-in-latest-action-over-point-village-shopping-centre-1.3245913","content_elements":[{"_id":"VLWK5TYG2ZCUZI3XV5MBNLASVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Department store chain Dunnes Stores has failed in its latest bid to get the Point Village shopping centre to hand over leases agreed by other tenants in the development.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZWODPM5RSZGDJPTZIUM5RC3U7A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dunnes is defending a legal claim that it should pay €15 million to Point Village Development Ltd, now controlled by Nama-appointed receivers, in line with an agreement between the department store group, the shopping centre company and its developer, Harry Crosbie.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JQQV5XVW6RBYPETYBIRF5OZRAA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The High Court has refused Dunnes Stores' application to see leases signed by other tenants with the Point Village. The recently published judgment, by Mr Justice Michael Twomey, states that it was not necessary to the case to allow the retailer to inspect the leases.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5JE3RWYBJBE3VBLS2ZKSFHXZT4","content":"The case was the second unsuccessful attempt by Dunnes to see leases signed by the shopping centre’s tenants. The Court of Appeal turned down an earlier bid last year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5C3V3J4AIJBP3KRI266XB65TWA","content":"Dunnes was meant to be the centre’s main tenant. In 2010, the retailer agreed with Point Village Development Ltd that it would pay the shopping centre developer €15 million once the company had signed leases for seven other units in the centre.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LBTVL3X67READJIT7ZSTFTZQKU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Inspect the leases","type":"header"},{"_id":"LYJJD6OPP5AY5DCRJJHYEYNGEQ","content":"The retail chain originally argued that this gave it the right to inspect the leases, but the Court of Appeal found against it and said that confirmation from the shopping centre’s lawyers was all that was needed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G26L4PDTUVEOPMLKVMDTFPQL6E","content":"However, that judgment suggested that Dunnes could get the right to see the leases if there were “fraud or manifest error”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TEM26BRLK5HNZGV3BGYGCT2ESE","additional_properties":{},"content":"The retail chain went back to the High Court and argued that there was a manifest error in the certificate from the receivers' lawyers, solicitors McCann Fitzgerald, confirming that the other leases had been signed, and it thus had the right to see them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QI72XHXYBJD2HDH6PQFHK27XTI","content":"However, Mr Justice Twomey ruled that this was not the case, and said that there was no reason to differ from the Court of Appeal’s judgment.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Barry O'Halloran"}},"name":"Barry O'Halloran"}]},"description":{"basic":"High Court has refused department chain store’s application to see leases signed by other tenants"},"display_date":"2017-10-06T04:23:38Z","headlines":{"basic":"Dunnes Stores fails in latest action over Point Village shopping centre"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"QHJ3OYZPO3O4KVHP3IPBHZNAI4","auth":{"1":"ab1473581c1b3cd62c1d0f482fa8978ba66831006cff5702d249dca9412a4d56"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QHJ3OYZPO3O4KVHP3IPBHZNAI4.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Business"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/business/retail-and-services/dunnes-stores-fails-in-latest-action-over-point-village-shopping-centre-1.3245913","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/business","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Business"}}}},{"_id":"RIIXTOSQFE2A3NPKZAEFCMP7ZM","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/opinion/state-s-approach-to-data-privacy-is-a-national-scandal-1.3246055","content_elements":[{"_id":"BVJLPMI2UFFVDIJHI6VNOSDSSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"It's not every day that a Minister for Justice issues a report describing their department as operating a universal, indiscriminate and illegal system of mass surveillance. Yet that is precisely what happened last Tuesday with the publication of a damning report by retired chief justice John Murray, which found that Irish surveillance practices fail to comply with European law.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QJEAETQ64JDRFAGMWEA5CHQ63A","additional_properties":{},"content":"The background dates from January 2016, when it emerged that Gsoc had been accessing journalists' phone records (without a clear legal basis) in order to identify their sources within An Garda Síochána. In response, then Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald appointed the former chief justice to examine the legal framework around State access to journalists' communications data - a remit he interpreted widely to include the underlying \"data retention\" law.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R72XVGLNXZBKZJCOK55E6XNJYM","content":"That law – the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 – forces telephone companies and ISPs to log details of everyone’s communications and movements and to store that information for up to two years. In Murray’s words it constitutes “a form of mass surveillance of virtually the entire population of the State, involving the retention and storage of historic data, other than actual content, pertaining to every electronic communication, in any form, made by anyone and everyone at any time … In essence this means the retention of all communication data not going explicitly to content: in other words, data pertaining to such matters such as the date, time and location of a telephone call.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6AQGOQ5K4ZEBXLU6NMC4TKAPII","additional_properties":{},"content":"Vast store of personal info","type":"header"},{"_id":"BGWZWD7PFJHJXFO5G3UW64L6CQ","content":"The impact on the privacy of individuals is clear. As the report puts it, “a vast amount of private information pertaining to the personal communications of virtually everyone in the State is now retained without the consent of those affected … Although routinely referred to in anodyne terms as ‘data’ or ‘retained data’, this vast store of private information touches every aspect of an individual’s private and professional communications profile over a lengthy period.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RNIV7H7ONDYXPBWPJ4BP7HC2Q","type":"quote"},{"_id":"PJSHV2QLLBC4XFTZGT7L6ZCVVE","content":"Despite the intrusiveness of this system, Murray found that in almost every regard it fails to meet standards articulated in a number of recent judgments by the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"56ZT7VSPKJHPPMR2LXV4OZBMJQ","content":"Some of the main problems can be summarised. By providing for universal rather than targeted surveillance the system falls at the first hurdle: the report noted that European case law “effectively sweeps the ground from under wholly indiscriminate mass surveillance schemes of the kind established by the 2011 Act”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IGEMUG3TSNGBTMDM6XBHPES5PI","content":"In the same way, the report found that Irish law fails to meet European standards by allowing for communications data to be accessed based purely on internal procedures within An Garda Síochána, without any court approval and without any protections for journalists’ sources. Even the basic matter of keeping this sensitive data secure was flunked: according to the report “the approach to data security [under the 2011 Act] can, at best, be described as nonchalant”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K4K6I7227RHIVLYTNPJYFHHOJI","content":"Indeed, in a remarkable postscript, Murray said that because “many of the features of the [2011 Act] are precluded by EU law”, State agencies should consider whether they should continue to access data “pending the final resolution of issues pertaining to the status of the Act and/or any amending legislation conforming with EU law and obligations under the ECHR”. Translated from the polite language of the judiciary, this is a strong warning that Irish law is so deficient that it is dangerous to rely on it any further.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NEOVMYKTCFCPPCO4KF6YWGRPBE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Scandalous lag","type":"header"},{"_id":"WJACQPLM7ZGM3JHPSY25K7IGSA","content":"The report was delivered to the Department of Justice in April this year and its tone and implications clearly spurred urgent action in the following months. Alongside the report, the Minister has published a general scheme of a Bill to replace the 2011 Act, which addresses most (though not all) of the criticisms made by the former chief justice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GFA67D2L6NHFJEWZXT5ODFP32I","additional_properties":{},"content":"While the Minister must be commended for producing a draft Bill that genuinely engages with privacy issues, it is scandalous that it has taken this long to do so. The department has sought to spin its actions as a response to \"recent evolving case law\" coming from Europe. It is true that the European courts have become stronger on privacy issues in recent years, particularly after the Snowden revelations, but the reality is that the fundamental rights problems with data retention schemes have been clear for over a decade.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QZNZRFLJS5E6FDEFAIIJQLOCEY","type":"quote"},{"_id":"3QB6QW43VRF2BGIDSBJ2VNOXXU","additional_properties":{},"content":"In 2005 the civil rights group Digital Rights Ireland started High Court proceedings challenging Irish and European data retention laws; in 2010 the High Court agreed that the case \"raised important constitutional issues\"; in 2014 Digital Rights Ireland succeeded in part of that case before the European Court of Justice; and the case has since returned to the High Court for a full hearing. Each of these developments should have prompted reform; instead, successive ministers – including Dermot Ahern, Alan Shatter and Frances Fitzgerald – adopted the ostrich position.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FDHILDVHM5EGBDKVAODQPMSAVE","content":"The result of this delay is that Irish journalists and citizens have been exposed to illegal surveillance, and prosecutions brought on the basis of illegally obtained evidence. Unfortunately it is possible that claims for damages may be brought against the State and convictions may be overturned as a result. If so, the blame for this will lie squarely with the Department of Justice and successive ministers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"THN77LLQEJDK7FRHAGPVAOE7LQ","type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"name":"TJ McIntyre"}]},"description":{"basic":"So deep are the problems that actions for damages may be brought and convictions quashed"},"display_date":"2017-10-06T00:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"State’s approach to data privacy is a national scandal"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"VXNZ32R4N4G5BIWDE7JQJ7DUXA","auth":{"1":"5a8c9ce355ef717193cd0a459d833ad7306c89032279019d7fa2c07cd9dc9e04"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/VXNZ32R4N4G5BIWDE7JQJ7DUXA.jpg"}},"subtype":"opinion","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Opinion"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/opinion/state-s-approach-to-data-privacy-is-a-national-scandal-1.3246055","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/opinion","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Opinion"}}}},{"_id":"C745ILVDKFQDV7UXMCRJ7GH7HM","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/news/crime-and-law/courts/high-court/gravedigger-sues-over-fall-in-cemetery-on-bitter-cold-day-1.3245904","content_elements":[{"_id":"XO6H5VDXDVBX7BSL475BWMZKAE","content":"A Co Wexford gravedigger who claims he fractured his ankle after slipping on ice in a graveyard following a burial has sued for damages.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HXBDLATXTJHO5EIWAWBPALDHPI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Nicky O'Brien told the High Court the incident happened at St Ibar's cemetery in Crosstown and left him unable to work for about eight months after having reconstructive surgery.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JKYEFJSIN5D5RAWVVZF65LD24U","content":"He said he was walking away as mourners left the grave of an elderly woman, which had been covered to be filled in later, when his foot went from under him and he fell.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I57P5PYDTVEBHLLSBE4GYOWCSE","content":"“I felt a crack in my foot. 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