Zabina Collins, a leading member of the Church of Scientology in Ireland, has told a judge she “could have been a little more temperate” about what she had to say in an email to a school principal complaining about a former church member’s talk to schoolboys on cults.

A man, who is the centre of a defamation action against a member of the Church of Scientology, told the Circuit Civil Court he allowed a picture to be taken with his genitals covered only with a Guy Fawkes mask, “to support Prince Harry”.