Costs of collapsed trial served on newspapers

THE bill of costs for the collapsed Paschal Carmody trial has been served on the Irish Examiner and The Irish Times by the Clare GP’s legal team, a court was told yesterday.

At Ennis Circuit Court, counsel for Dr Carmody, Lorcan Staines BL, said that the bill of costs from Dr Carmody’s solicitor, along with the bill of costs from Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the Court Service, has been served on the two national newspapers.

The trial of Dr Carmody collapsed at Ennis Circuit Court on April 28 after Judge Donagh McDonagh deemed that articles that appeared in the two newspapers presented a potential risk of Dr Carmody not receiving a fair trial. The material in question concerned part of the proceedings conducted in the absence of the jury.