{"id":309250,"date":"2026-01-29T05:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309250\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T05:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:22:11","slug":"martin-lanigan-husband-of-sinn-feins-mary-lou-mcdonald-settles-high-court-defamation-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/309250\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lanigan, husband of Sinn F\u00e9in&#8217;s Mary Lou McDonald, settles High Court defamation action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Martin Lanigan, the husband of Sinn F\u00e9in president Mary Lou McDonald, has settled a defamation action brought against former government minister Shane Ross and his book publisher, after he received an apology in the High Court from both parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Lanigan had alleged he was defamed by material published in Mr Ross\u2019s 2022 biography of Ms McDonald. The book, entitled  Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle, was published by Atlantic Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Lanigan, the husband of Sinn F\u00e9in president Mary Lou McDonald, has settled a defamation action brought against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,27,715,18,13,14,6,19,17,717,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-309250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-crime","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-justice","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115976715804572438","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309250","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=309250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}