‘You are the author of your own misfortune’

Newspaper’s legal team claims ex-footballer’s own conduct has gotten him into difficulties.

The newspaper which called a former Kildare footballer “the biggest swinger in town” claimed yesterday in its defence of a defamation action that the plaintiff was the author of his own misfortune.

Brian ‘Spike’ Nolan, aged 49, of Goatstown, Dublin, claims the Sunday World both defamed him and breached his right to privacy.