{"id":182060,"date":"2025-11-15T13:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/182060\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T13:01:11","slug":"gript-editor-john-mcguirk-gets-five-figure-settlement-over-claim-he-was-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/182060\/","title":{"rendered":"Gript editor John McGuirk gets five-figure settlement over claim he was \u2018far right\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">US-based news outlet Irish Central has agreed to publish an apology saying label was \u2018unfair\u2019 to conservative commentator\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Conservative commentator John McGuirk on RT\u00c9's 'Prime Time'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/John McGuirk.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Conservative commentator John McGuirk on RT\u00c9&#8217;s &#8216;Prime Time&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Shane Phelan and Mark Tighe<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A US-based Irish-American online news outlet has agreed to pay \u20ac20,000 to conservative website Gript and its editor John McGuirk to settle defamation proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr McGuirk and Gript Media sued Irish Studio LLC, owners of the Irish Central website, over an article which identified him as \u201cfar right\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US-based news outlet Irish Central has agreed to publish an apology saying label was \u2018unfair\u2019 to conservative commentator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5608,5,8661,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-182060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-featured-news","11":"tag-featurednews","12":"tag-headlines","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-latestnews","15":"tag-main-news","16":"tag-mainnews","17":"tag-mark-tighe","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-shane-phelan","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-topstories","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-world-news","24":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115553847567533875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}