Kerry garda secures injunction ordering local election candidate to remove defamatory posts

The action arose from Michelle Keane surreptitiously recording a phone conversation between herself and Sgt Melanie Walsh and posting it online with accompanying comments and follow-up posts

Sgt Melanie Walsh was subjected to 'brutal' comments on TikTok.

A Listowel-based garda sergeant has secured an interlocutory court injunction ordering a 2024 local election candidate to remove all online posts made against the sergeant.

At Ennis Circuit Court on Wednesday, Judge Francis Comerford granted the court injunction to Sgt Melanie Walsh against independent Kerry County Council candidate, Michelle Keane.