Flawed privacy bill offers us no protection

The 2006 bill goes too far in dealing with press invasions and fails to deal with other important aspects, writes Eoin O’Dell

LAST Friday, the French magazine Closer published topless photographs of the duchess of Cambridge. The following day, the Irish Daily Star also published some of those photographs.

Yesterday, a French court held that this constituted an invasion of the duchess’s privacy, and blocked any further publication of the intimate shots. If she were now to sue the Star in an Irish court, the result would be the same.