IRELAND
Herald
By Cormac Murphy and Tim Healy
Thursday May 17 2012
THE High Court Taxing Master has slashed the fees of the solicitor who acted for Fr Kevin Reynolds by almost 70pc.
In a move likely to set an important precedent, RTE got its legal bill for defaming the priest reduced by €195,000.
But the broadcaster was facing fresh calls for its chairman, Tom Savage, to resign.
Independent TD Mattie McGrath told an Oireachtas committee that Mr Savage had been “making a laugh” of Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte. Mr McGrath described the defamation as “downright disgraceful”.
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