The jury hearing businessman Denis O’Brien’s action over alleged defamation in articles in the Sunday Business Post will return to the High Court next Tuesday to hear closing speeches. When the eleven member jury returned to court on Friday morning, Mr Justice Bernard Barton sent them away until Tuesday. Mr O’Brien claims he was defamed in articles published over six pages in the SBP. Mr Lyons got the report from a source in 2015 and shredded it shortly after the articles were published to protect the source. Mr O’Brien claims the articles, written by Mr Lyons and others, wrongly meant he was among a “gang” of 22 borrowers who “wrecked the country” and that they defamed him and injured his reputation.

Source: The Irish Times February 22, 2019 12:00 UTC