Gardaí deny leaks to media

GARDAÍ stationed at Ballybunion, Co Kerry, in the spring of 1999 have denied leaking information to the media that a convicted rapist was residing with a Dublin family who had relocated to the resort town under the rural resettlement scheme, the High Court heard yesterday.

The gardaí made the denials on the second day of the action taken by Mr Alan Gray, his wife Phyllis and their son Francis, Drumalee Road, North Circular Road, Dublin. They are suing the Justice Minister and the Attorney General for damages, claiming that their constitutional right to privacy was breached when gardaí leaked to the media information that a relation, James O’Donoghue a convicted sex offender, had been residing with them.

Following the revelations the family were shunned by the local community and decided to returned to Dublin.