Government intends to change defamation laws in this term

Government intends to change defamation laws in this term

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said that the Government intends to change Irish defamation laws.

Martin promises defamation law reform ‘as quickly as we can’

Irish defamation law will change as soon as the Government can achieve it, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said, as he praised a BBC journalist at the centre of Gerry Adams’s successful libel action, Brian Mahon. Mr Adams took the BBC to court over a 2016 episode of Spotlight, and an accompanying online story, which he said defamed him by alleging he sanctioned the killing of former Sinn Féin official Denis Donaldson, which he denies. Last month, a…