Publisher fails to stop wedding magazine

PUBLISHER Michael Hogan yesterday failed to secure a High Court interlocutory injunction restraining two of his former employees setting up a rival wedding magazine called Weddings Irish Style.

He claims his magazine entitled Irish Wedding and New Home has a circulation of 5,500.

In refusing the application, Mr Justice Thomas Smyth said the defendants had nothing to be proud of in the way they went about the publication of their magazine. However, he said that by granting the injunction it would be tantamount to determining the issue and he therefore refused the injunction. He believed that the way the defendants had operated had the hallmarks of stealth.