Hot Press editor in legal row over Hall of Fame losses

HOT Press editor Niall Stokes has begun a High Court action against millionaire music promoter Denis Desmond and Riverdance duo Moya Doherty and John McColgan.

The case is centred on a liability of €1.5m in losses, allegedly incurred by the company that ran the Hot Press Music Hall of Fame in Dublin.

The action by Mr Stokes and his wife Máirín Sheehy, of Trinity Street, Dublin, is against John MacColgan and Moya Doherty, Louth man Cyril O’Brien, Tony Burke of Lambourne Wood, Cabinteely, Dublin, and Denis Desmond of Strand Road, Killiney.