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Could Brian Kerr sue the Indo?

  • 13-10-2005 9:07am
    #1
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭


    Looking at today's front page: banner headline screaming 'I was a disgrace' right beside a big picture of Brian Kerr.

    Now at a second glance, the headline clearly refers to Minister Jim McDaid talking about his drunk driving conviction. But any journalist or editor must know that to put a picture of an identifiable individual anywhere NEAR a negative headline is asking for big trouble.

    The Indo must have known what it was doing.

    They must have calculated that an Irish team manager would be unlikely to sue a national newspaper for defamation for something like that.

    But he could....

    ..especially if he were to suddenly lose it.


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  • #2
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    It's a nothing argument. I'm sure the tabloids are writing far worse and directly linked to him.


  • #3
    Lump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,984 ✭✭✭✭Lump


    Yea, that's not a problem.... it's a different story if they had attached the headline with him directly.

    John


  • #4
    mycroft
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,862 ✭✭✭mycroft


    whiskeyman wrote:
    It's a nothing argument. I'm sure the tabloids are writing far worse and directly linked to him.

    Libel is notoriously difficult to prove. You'd need to prove that people read this and connected it to Kerr, and it caused detrimently impact to him. I'm sure the tabloids have been writing much worse directly about Kerr today.

    Hell day before the last general election one of the less reputable tabloids made a mock up of Noonan's face photoshopped to look like a clown, with the caption "don't elect this clown" and weren't sued.


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