Defamation appeal case settled 10 minutes before Supreme Court was to issue judgement

An appeal over a €900,000 defamation award was settled just ten minutes before a seven-judge Supreme Court was about to deliver a majority judgment which would have substituted the award with a figure as low as €75,000, reports Ann O’Loughlin.

An appeal over a €900,000 defamation award was settled just ten minutes before a seven-judge Supreme Court was about to deliver a majority judgment which would have substituted the award with a figure as low as €75,000, reports Ann O’Loughlin.

The development came today in the long running libel case involving Sligo man Martin McDonagh and the Sunday World newspaper.