Mountjoy officer fails in defamation claim over affair with inmate's wife

A prison officer at Mountjoy Prison has told the Circuit Civil Court he had a relationship with the wife of a prisoner who was behind bars in the Dublin jail at the time.

Paul Moles, (aged 41) of Park Lane, Grangerath, Colpe Road, Co Meath, today failed in a €50,000 defamation claim against the Irish Star newspaper which, in April 2010, exposed his affair. He now faces a legal costs bill of more than €20,000.