{"id":191599,"date":"2025-11-20T23:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/191599\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T23:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:40:16","slug":"jury-in-defamation-action-against-denis-obrien-expected-to-begin-deliberating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/191599\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury in defamation action against Denis O\u2019Brien expected to begin deliberating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Businessman Denis O'Brien (Pic: Collins Courts)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763682016_760_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 (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 jury in a High Court defamation action taken by two lawyers against businessman Denis O\u2019Brien is expected to begin its deliberations on Friday.<\/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)\">Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth, solicitors at Belfast firm Phoenix Law, claim Mr O\u2019Brien and his spokesman James Morrissey implied in a October 2016 press release that they acted for and received payment from the IRA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Businessman Denis O&#8217;Brien (Pic: Collins Courts) A jury in a High Court defamation action taken by two lawyers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,36941,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-191599","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-denis-obrien","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-world","22":"tag-world-news","23":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115584671991272479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191599","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=191599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}