Independent News & Media has signalled its interest in exploratory talks over legal claims lodged following the data breach scandal that rocked the group when businessman Denis O’Brien was its main shareholder. The claims centre on the searching of emails in 2014 that belonged to lawyers, senior journalists, former INM executives and public relations figures. They also include Karl Brophy, a former INM journalist and executive, who is aligned with the family of Sir Anthony O’Reilly, who lost a bitter corporate battle against Mr O’Brien for control of INM. Mediahuis IrelandThe company, now known as Mediahuis Ireland, still faces legal action from several of the people whose data was searched. INM blamed Mr Buckley for the data breach.

Source: The Irish Times May 29, 2021 00:00 UTC