Businesswoman Jackie Lavin launches defamation proceedings against newspaper

Ms Lavin claims the article, which was published in the Sunday Times in November 2021, about the sale of the 43-room, three-storey Osberstown House in Kildare was 'manifestly incorrect'

Jackie Lavin claims article wrongly states she was forced to sell her property at Osberstown House in Co Kildare by a bank. File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

Businesswoman Jackie Lavin has launched defamation proceedings against the publisher of the Sunday Times newspaper over an article she says wrongly stated she was forced to sell her former Co Kildare home.

In her action, Ms Lavin claims the article, which was published in Ireland in early November 2021, about the sale of the 43-room, three-storey period property at Osberstown House in Co Kildare was "manifestly incorrect".