No recall of ‘back in print’ note, says Bailey

Ian Bailey said he has no recall of writing the words: "Back in print again, hip hip hooray" after doing interviews with a journalist related to events surrounding the murder in West Cork of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier in late 1996.

Luán Ó Braonáin SC, for the State, said the note with those words was dated June 30, 1997, shortly after Mr Bailey met Sunday Independent journalist Brighid McLaughlin in Schull while she was researching a story arising from the December 1996 murder.

The writing in the note did not look like his and he had no recall of writing those words but he may have done so, Mr Bailey said. Counsel also put to Mr Bailey that it was incorrect to give the impression that his second arrest on January 27, 1998, was solely on the basis of claims that he had intimidated Marie Farrell, a local shopkeeper who had made statements to gardaí.