Tribunal documents - Good news day as paper is vindicated

It was important that the Sunday Business Post was vindicated yesterday in the High Court in the legal attempt by the Mahon Tribunal to stop publication of documents which the tribunal had professed to be confidential.

The newspaper refused to refrain from publishing documents deemed confidential by the tribunal, having previously published such stories by journalist Barry O’Kelly.

He had also refused to reveal his sources to the tribunal, for which he could have faced a jail sentence on a charge of contempt of court, although that was not an issue before yesterday’s hearing.