Gary Gannon falsely claimed a daily schedule for former US attorney general Eric Holder actually related to the now dead paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Photograph: Stephen Collins/CollinsThe Social Democrats and party TD Gary Gannon have apologised and agreed to pay damages to former minister for justice Alan Shatter following a social media post relating to the Jeffrey Epstein files. Gannon, the party’s spokesman on justice, falsely claimed a daily schedule from September 2011 for former US attorney general Eric Holder actually related to the now dead paedophile Epstein. He wrote twice to the Social Democrats demanding they withdraw the claims against him. “I acknowledge that Alan Shatter never met or arranged to meet Epstein nor had any relationship or contact with him.

Source: The Irish Times February 13, 2026 20:55 UTC