{"id":192759,"date":"2025-11-21T15:25:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/192759\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:25:11","slug":"denis-obrien-and-spokesman-james-morrissey-must-pay-two-solicitors-e411750-each-in-one-of-biggest-defamation-payouts-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/192759\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis O&#8217;Brien and spokesman James Morrissey must pay two solicitors \u20ac411,750 each in one of biggest defamation payouts ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Denis O Brien leaving the High Court after a defamation case was taken against him by Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth, solicitors with Belfast human rights firm Phoenix Law.&#10;Photo Collins Courts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/68a7d636-3dd2-4178-a88a-8c80ccbb82fa.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)\">Denis O Brien leaving the High Court after a defamation case was taken against him by Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth, solicitors with Belfast human rights firm Phoenix Law.<br \/>\nPhoto 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)\">Businessman Denis O\u2019Brien defamed two lawyers in a 2016 press release that implied they acted for the IRA, a High Court jury has found.<\/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 O\u2019Brien and his spokesman James Morrissey must pay solicitors Darragh Mackin and Gavin Booth \u20ac411,750 each to compensate the damage done to their reputations arising from the defamation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREAKING\u00a0|\u00a0 Denis O Brien leaving the High Court after a defamation case was taken against him by Darragh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192760,"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-192759","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\/115588387844534412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192759","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=192759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}