Court rules Gemma O'Doherty and John Waters must pay costs for Covid-19 legal challenge

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Gemma O'Doherty and John Waters face substantial bill as High Court rules they should pay State and Oireachtas costs for two-day legal challenge

John Waters and Gemma O’Doherty arriving at the Four Courts for the second day the High Court action in May Image: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie John Waters and Gemma O’Doherty arriving at the Four Courts for the second day the High Court action in May Image: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie GEMMA O’DOHERTY AND John Waters are facing a substantial legal bill after the High Court ruled they must pay the costs of their failed attempt to challenge laws brought in due to Covid-19.

In a ruling this morning, Mr Justice Charles Meenan said the pair should pay the legal costs of both the state respondents and the notice parties – the Dáil, Seanad and the Ceann Comhairle. Last month, the court refused to grant the pair permission to have their judicial review challenge against the laws go to a full hearing.

Waters and O’Doherty, who claim the laws are unconstitutional, are appealing the dismissal of their action to the Court of Appeal.#Open journalism No news is bad news Support The Journal Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to youTheJournal.ie's coronavirus newsletter cuts through the misinformation and noise with the clear facts you need to make informed choices.

 

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I heard That fool is a kiddy fiddler! (John waters) Plus I know that dee walls husband was in trouble before for the same! Has anyone the balls to share some light on this?

Delighted 😀

Glad to hear this. They weren’t representing me or anyone I know and certainly not in the manner in which they behaved! Quite the opposite in fact.

They should be out shouting for an United Ireland - and stop emigration of our young people - United we must build a better Ireland and Irish people can do it together - as they are good workers - together with a semi- social Govt we can do it - this extreme capitalist is wrong

There is a God!

Great news.

Always one of them carrying that infernal feck in folder! Embarrassing Eejits.

Good

They need their supporters to raise funds Legal costs are going to be substantial Was it really worth it Gemma and John ? You got nowhere Publicity at a price

Delighted for them

Good news for a change.

Delighted with this mews . Wasters

Great

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You can’t challenge the capitalist cult they are all in it together

Both of them are nutjobs. Broke nutjobs now. Off with them to the poorhouse.

A positive for 2020 at last!!!! parasites

Delighted for you and your fruity friend 🤣🤣

Good!

They will probably set up a go fund me 😂

No doubt Gemma can walk on Waters

GOOD

Good.

Delighted for them.

Let’s see if they actually pay the court fees , I wonder would they get locked up for non paymenttax payer will end up paying

Al_toMyFriends Ha ha ha hah ha haaaaa ha ha ha ha hah ha ha ha ha haha hah ha haaaaa ha ha ha ha. GOOD!

Some good news at last!

Soon be seen working in a public tiolet near u

pair of c unts fuck e m

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Christmas has come early

Fantastic! About time! A bit of real poverty should put some manners on them for a change. Hope it’s in the tens of thousands at least!!!

Delighted...

Delighted to hear this

Get the rubles changed into euros around the corner

Let’s see who pays the bill and hopefully some one in the press actually tracks it. There is something fishy going on there

And rightly so 👍

Excellent what goes around comes around

Occassionally the costs will be shared or even carried by the state if a decision is not clear and the judgement is to clarify a point of law

but do they even care? I’m under the impression Gemma has wealthy supporters behind the scenes who will cover the bills

Put the boot into the two them

👏👏👏

Justice served.

The government she brought this court case against are making a mockery of the lockdown by refusing to stop or even speak out against a mass gathering. Varadkar is doing a good job making it look like she had a valid point.

😍

Ha!

ItsAdamRedmond 😂😂😂

Could she just feck right off! Attention seeking woman is all she is

Awww

Wow a greedy landlord getting a bill for trying to put people out on the street I now have faith in the justice system

kevinhal2 we do a whip around for Gemma 🙃

Fantastic

That will stop the bullshit

Ha ha. 🖕🖕🖕

Let them collect from their pathetic followers- I wonder will the same squad pay up with cash- and not homage

Where can l donate to their GoFundMe page?...... said no one ever teameggburt

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Rightly so...Whether people agree with their legal challenge or not, when taking a case you do so on the understanding that this may be the outcome.I don't go into a restaurant and say hopefully it will be awful & I won't have to pay. To assume is to....

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha 😂😂😂😂. Delighted for them. Maybe they’ll think twice in future about wasting court time.

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Deadly I'm delighted for the cow 😅😅

Absolutely excellent! Bankrupt them back to the Stone Age!

Judges, working for gesara

There is a God.

Justice. These two clowns should pay the full costs for their vanity project.

True democracy at work! Great system! Call us Nazis would you! 🙄🙄

😁

Fantastic news

Well that's just made my day karma

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Good

With all the awful things going on in the world it’s nice to see a good news story. Justice prevailed. I wonder will her financial backers of whatever American evangelical church pay her costs or will her assests be seized. One can dream

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Is it just me or does John Waters look like the guy with the gammy hand in one of those ‘Scary Movie’ films? 🤔

Good

They will probably take another case against the State claiming its a conspiracy against them :)

I'd say the politicians who proposed her for presidential race will once again back her

We should hav just had an all lives matter march.

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And an Appeal to the Court of Appeal will cost them more. The US backers better cough up.

Best news ever on this wet miserable day it's a ray of sunlight

Great, I’m delighted the idiots!

Good

Two nobodys trying to be somebody

Great news

Bit of good news for once

I think Oireachtas should pay their own costs they can well afford it. That kind of challenge was needed no matter who done it.

Pay up time!! 🤡🤡🤡🤡

They brought it, they bought it.

She has a face I'd love to kick... Sorry but that's the way I feel

I’m delighted 😂😂😂😂

😂😂😂

Remind me how much RTE donated to John?

No gloating please.

Sweet!

Serves them right 🤣🤣🤣

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D E L I G H T E D !

Great news

Great news!

Who's this now?

I’ll hold a whip round for them......bagsey counting the lashes 😜🤣

Yahooooo... they should pay for the cost of the Gardai required outside the four courts also

Excellent news.

Expensive hobby being an idiot.

Haha

Delighted!

At long last a good news story 👍

👏👏👏👏

Best news I've had in months

Yes, they should pay!

I have no love for either of these idiots however should it not be a % they have to pay. Is the law just for the wealthy?

Serves the both of them right where’s your Black and Tans now John

But who is financially backing them......

Good. Pair of attention seeking hacks should be made pay every penny.

Two arseholes from the same cheek

AndrewSB49 Oh, how sad.

Good news there. Now we can stop giving them attention and let them fade back into obscurity! Slan Agus GRMA!

Of course they should pay! For all their nonsense and costing the taxpayer a fortune...What odds they are back in court next week filing for bankruptcy...and the people have to pick up the tab! 😡

Not a surprise !!

The results are in....

Who are bank rolling these muppets

PATRIOTS - STANDBY FOR MY GO FUND ME PAGE! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

YES!!

Ireland right now

Good enough for the two fools ,

Thrilled

Don't worry the Koch brothers will pay for that you truly think tank in Kilkenny.

If we had to pay for this they’d have to leave the country.

And rightly so, the people of ireland DID NOT ask these 2 to speak on our behalf so we certainly shouldn't have to foot the bill for them, they took it to court they should pay the bill

Great news. But guaranteed the payments will not come out of their bank accounts, more likely from their backers, so no pain there.

Delighted

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Good enough for them. Once they don't appear on any of the state platforms to help them in generating any of the costs to help them fund these illegal bills. GemmaoDoherty JohnWaters

She could ask Bill Gates for a loan.

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Great news

And deservedly so

But, but I thought she was the Master of everything, or words to that effect....We the people, who she was not representing, are happy now.

And there I was thinking there'd be no good news this morning

Oh what a great decision make them pay dearly

TadhgKenny1 oh well! Turns out being s toxic person is expensive business

LordHumphreys This will be paid for by her followers. People paying her through her Go Fund me link on her twitter page. I wonder if she declares that as income while she is claiming her dole.

Excellent news.

They done more in 2 days than the caretaker gov has done in 3 months giving themselves pay rises and €9 grand from last yr !!!

They brought the case, are adults and knew the risks. Now why would the taxpayer ever have to foot the bill for such a case? It's right that they pay.

Good. Fine job

Surprised at the level of abuse these 2 are getting. Access to the courts is fundamental, and the price we pay for that is the occasional case we disagree with and/or frivolous case. If we trust our courts we should have no problem with cases like this.

christineomg5 Should dent that ever present smirk a little

That's made my morning

Finally some good news!

And why wouldn’t they have to ? Who else is gonna pay it 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️

Maybe the 15 people and 1 dog who supported them in Wicklow the other day could fundraise for them.

Well yeah they took it to court not the Irish people.

Best news in ages !!

George Soros should pick up the tab for them, really piss them off!

Lovely

Are they going to be investigated like the organizers of the BlackLivesMatter protest? I doubt it.

Delighted

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Great news

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Best of luck to the State trying to enforce that Judgment.

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