Man challenges decision to cut off his social welfare

A man who featured in an RTÉ television programme about prostitution has gone to the High Court in a bid to challenge a decision to cut off his social welfare payments.

Ioan Anton, a married father of two, was filmed in a Prime Time Investigates broadcast in Feb 2012, which he says insinuated he was involved in prostitution and brothel keeping.

He said he was shown driving several people who appeared in the programme. Mr Anton denies any involvement in such activities and says his appearance on Prime Time Investigates was entirely innocent.