A €310,000 award to a a former Kildare Gaelic footballer for defamation in two newspaper articles about swingers' parties and the sex trade should be overturned, the Court of Appeal has been told.

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A €900,000 damages award made by a High Court jury against a newspaper which described a man as a drug dealer has today been overturned by the Court of Appeal on grounds of a "perverse" jury finding the man was not a drug dealer.