Contempt of court claim against Gemma O'Doherty adjourned to February

Edel Campbell claims Ms O'Doherty has wrongly and unlawfully used the image of the plaintiff's son, Diego Gilsenan, in an article on media controlled by Ms O'Doherty linking unexplained deaths to the covid-19 vaccination. File picture: Collins Courts

An application to have Gemma O'Doherty brought before the High Court to answer her alleged refusal to obey a court order not to harass the mother of a young man who died by suicide has been put back to next month.

Lawyers acting for Edel Campbell, who is suing Ms O'Doherty over the use of her son's image on a publication run by the defendant, have brought a motion seeking Ms O'Doherty's attachment and possible committal to prison for the alleged contempt.