{"id":677461,"date":"2026-09-07T21:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/677461\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T21:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T21:15:32","slug":"kneecap-temporarily-fails-in-first-step-to-sue-canadian-mp-for-defamation-of-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/677461\/","title":{"rendered":"Kneecap temporarily fails in first step to sue Canadian MP for defamation of character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IRISH LANGUAGE RAP group Kneecap has temporarily failed in its first step to sue Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for defamation of character.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Justice Kathleen Noctor refused the group leave to serve legal documents outside the jurisdiction on Gasparro.<\/p>\n<p>She said there were translation issues, specifically that there was no translation of the plenary summons the group proposed to serve on Gasparro.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Noctor told leading senior counsel Mark Carty that the application could be made again when all paperwork was properly before the court.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1788815732_983_.jpeg\"  alt=\"ottawa-can-19th-sep-2025-vince-gasparro-parliamentary-secretary-to-the-secretary-of-state-combatting-crime-rises-during-question-period-in-the-house-of-commons-on-parliament-hill-in-ottawa-on\" class=\"alignnone inline-image\" \/><br \/>\n            File image of Vince Gasparro                    Alamy Stock Photo<\/p>\n<p>    Alamy Stock Photo\n<\/p>\n<p>Carty told the court that Gasparro had posted statements concerning the Kneecap trio, particularly alleging that they had been engaged in violence and should be banned from Canada \u201cbecause of their terrorist activities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kneecap is a rap trio consisting of Mo Chara, M\u00f3gla\u00ed Bap and DJ Pr\u00f3va\u00ed, which are the stage names of Liam \u00d3g \u00d3 hAnnaidh, Naoise \u00d3 Caireall\u00e1in and James John \u00d3 Dochartaigh, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>It is the trio\u2019s case that they had been subjected to serious and unfounded assertions which had caused them substantial reputational harm.<\/p>\n<p>They claim the statements made by Gasparro are wholly inaccurate and defamatory without reason or justification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRISH LANGUAGE RAP group Kneecap has temporarily failed in its first step to sue Canadian MP Vince Gasparro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,995,27,9685,13,14,6,2873,26303,4066,11,12,15,16,5,2384,7,8,51933,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-677461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-canada","tag-courts","tag-defamation","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-hip-hop","tag-irish-language","tag-kneecap","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-rap","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-vince-gasparro","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117231834718883040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677461","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=677461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}