IRELAND
Irish Independent
By Fiach Kelly Political Correspondent
Thursday May 17 2012
COMMUNICATIONS Minister Pat Rabbitte last night said he had “no hand” in a libel payout made by RTE over remarks he made about a garda investigation.
The case was reported to have cost the national broadcaster up to €100,000 in compensation and legal costs, but Mr Rabbitte rejected this figure.
Mr Rabbitte was due to be called as a witness in the libel action over comments he made on an RTE news programme about the gardai’s wrongful charging of Dublin man Dean Lyons with the murder of two women at the Grangegorman hospital complex in 1997. The libel action was settled before it was due to come to court on Tuesday last week, the same day Mr Rabbitte met the RTEboard over the Fr Kevin Reynolds affair.
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