Twink’s ex’s partner loses action for defamation
However the President of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, said the articles by the Sunday World “represented the lowest standards of journalism imaginable”. He said the issue of privacy versus freedom of expression should be a matter for new legislation.
Ruth Hickey, aged 36, of Archer’s Wood, Castaheany, Dublin 15, sued the Sunday World over the material which was published after she, her newborn son and Mr Agnew, were photographed leaving the Births, Marriages and Deaths office in Dublin on May 10, 2006.
