Paper to pay €11k over player’s photo

A NEWSPAPER has been ordered by a High Court judge to increase to €11,000 its payment of damages to a young GAA footballer over publication of a photograph in which his private parts were exposed.

The Carlow Nationalist is also facing legal costs of more than €100,000 following lengthy High Court proceedings over the publication in June, 2005.

The newspaper had been ordered by Carlow Circuit Court in June 2006 to pay Richard Sinnott, 24, of Clonegal, Co Carlow, €6,500 damages for breach of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional harm and negligence arising from the publication.