O’Brien had to be named, says RTÉ

There would have been no point in RTÉ broadcasting a report which made anonymous businessman Denis O’Brien’s affairs relating to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), the High Court has heard.

It would be a boring report of the “Small Earthquake in Chile: Not many dead” type which essentially sucks the lifeblood out of the story, said David Holland SC, for RTÉ.

He was continuing his submissions in RTÉ’s opposition to an application from Mr O’Brien and IBRC for an injunction preventing a broadcast report which the businessman says will invade his privacy by revealing details of his personal and confidential banking affairs.