Defamation case: Denis O'Brien tells Michael McDowell 'I’m second place to you in the vanity stakes'

Businessman Denis O’Brien has said he is not “self-obsessed” in believing he was “lumped in” with 22 borrowers allegedly blamed in newspaper articles for the 2008 financial crisis here.

"I’m second place to you in the vanity stakes,” he told Michael McDowell SC during cross-examination in his High Court action alleging defamation in several articles published in the Sunday Business Post (SBP) on March 15th 2015.