High Court to rule on RTÉ’s bid to discharge O’Brien-IBRC injunction

The High Court will rule tomorrow on RTÉ’s application to fully discharge an injunction restraining publication of certain information relating to the banking relationship between Denis O’Brien and State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (formerly Anglo Irish Bank).

RTÉ’s counsel David Holland yesterday urged Mr Justice Donald Binchy not to permit the businessman to maintain a “sword of Damocles” over the media by leaving in place an injunction granted last month.

Recent Dáil disclosures about the banking relationship between Mr O’Brien and IBRC meant the injunction was pointless, he argued.