O’Brien fails to win disclosure order against Red Flag

Denis O’Brien has failed to get court orders directing Red Flag Consulting to discover documents which would disclose the identity of its client for a dossier of material about the businessman.

These and other documents were sought by Mr O’Brien’s lawyers in preparation for the full hearing of his case against Red Flag and various executives and staff over the dossier which, he alleges, is mostly unfavourable to him and defamatory.

Red Flag denies defamation or conspiracy. It said there are significant issues concerning how Mr O’Brien got that material and argued it was entitled to preserve its client’s anonymity.