Man awarded €900,000 after paper wrongly called him 'drug king'

A Sligo man who was libelled when a newspaper called him a Traveller "drug king" was awarded a record €900,000 in damages at the High Court this evening.

A jury of seven women and five men found that Martin McDonagh, a father of eight from Cranmore Drive, Sligo, was libelled by the Sunday World in an article published on September 5, 1999.