IT cannot be permissible under the Constitution to photograph a mother and her young son and then use words suggesting she is a whore and the child a bastard, the High Court was told yesterday by counsel for the woman who claims she was defamed and her family’s privacy invaded by a newspaper.

Lawyers for the partner of Twink's ex-husband have failed to gag the media in her court case against the Sunday World.

THE partner of pantomime star Twink’s ex-husband, David Agnew told the High Court newspaper articles about her family meant she was a whore and her son a bastard.

David Agnew's partner says she has no idea how a phone message left by his ex wife Twink entered the public domain.

PANTO queen Twink’s ex-husband David Agnew and his 29-year-old partner Ruth Hickey are to have a baby boy in the New Year.