{"id":186986,"date":"2025-11-18T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/186986\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:14:11","slug":"denis-obrien-spokesman-stands-over-every-word-in-press-release-that-solicitors-claim-defamed-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/186986\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis O\u2019Brien spokesman stands over \u2018every word\u2019 in press release that solicitors claim defamed them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Businessman Denis O'Brien pictured at the Four Courts last week (Pic: Collins Courts)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/08711d00-1059-48a9-b975-0f38afa61926.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)\">Businessman Denis O&#8217;Brien pictured at the Four Courts last week (Pic: Collins Courts)<\/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 communications consultant who issued an allegedly defamatory press release on behalf of businessman Denis O\u2019Brien has told a High Court jury he stands over \u201cevery word\u201d of the statement.<\/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)\">James Morrissey, who worked as a spokesman for Mr O\u2019Brien, was today giving evidence on the fourth day of a defamation action taken against both men by solicitors Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Businessman Denis O&#8217;Brien pictured at the Four Courts last week (Pic: Collins Courts) A communications consultant who issued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13,14,6,11,23,12,15,16,5,81745,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-186986","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-latest-news-ticker","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-news-in-90-seconds","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\/115570413827302664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186986","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=186986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}