RTE bill for Fr Reynolds legal team was €150,000

IRELAND
Irish Examiner

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

The Courts Service has revealed RTE’s bill for defamed priest Fr Kevin Reynolds’ legal team was more than €150,000.

Declan O’Neill, Taxing Master, ruled Fr Reynolds’ solicitor Robert Dore be paid €80,000 for his work on the defamation case.

Mr Dore, and his firm Dore and Company, had originally sought an instructions fee of €275,000.

He had argued the case occupied his time between mid-June and mid-November, that it pervaded his office, and that the amount of time spent by his practice was enormous.

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