Denis O’Brien accuses newspaper of 'hatchet job page by page' in High Court trial

Denis O’Brien has told a High Court jury that articles in the Sunday Business Post which named him as among the 22 biggest borrowers from Irish banks in 2008 were a “hatchet job page by page”.

Being called a “buccaneer” borrower by the Sunday Independent in April 2012 was not derogatory but he objected to being described as part of a “gang” of 22 borrowers in the SBP articles of March 2015, he said.