'If we got that now, I don't think we would do it any differently', editor in Coffey defamation trial tells court

The editor of the Kilkenny People who put the "Coffey the Robber" headline on an allegedly defamatory article about a former junior minister told the High Court he would not do it differently now.

'If we got that now,  I don't think we would do it any differently', editor in Coffey defamation trial tells court

The editor of the Kilkenny People who put the "Coffey the Robber" headline on an allegedly defamatory article about a former junior minister told the High Court he would not do it differently now.

Brian Keyes said it was his decision to use that headline because the words were in a press release from Kilkenny-Carlow TD, John Paul Phelan.

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