A jury yesterday failed to reach a verdict in a defamation action brought over an article by Sunday Times columnist Brenda Power.

The jury has been told it can return a majority verdict in the case of a Donegal property broker suing the Sunday Times for defamation.

Journalist Brenda Power stands by a column in which she criticised the “appalling” behaviour of a man who sued over the interruption of his filming at the birth of his first child, the High Court heard yesterday.

Journalist Brenda Power has told a jury in a High Court defamation action that ‘midwives work too hard to be tip-toeing around fathers with lawyers on speed dial’.

A man suing the Sunday Times for defamation over an opinion piece about him filming the birth of his baby daughter accepts that it may have been an emergency delivery.

A man who sued a midwife for interrupting his filming of the birth of his child is to be allowed continue with a defamation action against The Sunday Times, after the High Court agreed to strike out some of his claims.

The Sunday Times has failed to stop a defamation action by a man who previously sued a midwife for interrupting his filming of the birth of his child.

A man who lost a legal action against a midwife for interrupting his filming of the birth of his child will find out today if he can proceed with another court case - this time for defamation.

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A FRESH battle of the airwaves is set to break out in Irish radio as Today FM broadcaster Tom Dunne is to move to rival station Newstalk to present a new morning show.

SECURITY staff at the women’s prison where Galway woman Una Black this week began a nine-year sentence for manslaughter, were on high alert as she may give birth as early as this week.

YOU can call Bertie Ahern a rat and a liar, but derogatory terms about the Travelling community are out of bounds — according to the latest batch of decisions from the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC).

ONE of the reason’s people voted no in last week’s referendum was the lack of clarity in the proposition.

OLYMPIC gold medallist Michelle de Bruin claimed yesterday she was dropped from the Late Late Show, because she refused to talk about her swimming ban shame.

THE drink driving discussion on the Late Late Show (November 24) was frustrating, to say the least.

FOUR of the seven Guild of Agricultural Journalists awards, which Health Minister Mary Harney presented at the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin, were won by Irish Farmers Journal contributors.

Radio station Newstalk will be reaching out to new listeners all over the country today as it takes to the national airwaves.

DUBLIN radio Newstalk 106 yesterday launched its new autumn schedule in advance of going countrywide, next month.

REGARDING organ retention, the medical technicians were too shy to appear on Brenda Power’s show, RTÉ Radio 1, August 28. Though obviously clinically detached in their professional work, they were reluctant to have their own actions and motives dissected in a similar fashion.

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