Gemma O’Doherty has rejected claims that she harassed a woman whose son died by suicide and said any attempt to jail her for alleged contempt is “outrageous and unlawful”.Mr Justice Conor Dignam adjourned to later this week an application that could see Ms O’Doherty jailed over her alleged failure to comply with the terms of an injunction obtained by Edel Campbell.
The injunction was granted as part of proceedings Ms Campbell has brought against Ms O’Doherty over the use of an image of her late son, Diego Gilsenan, in the Irish Light newspaper, which Ms O’Doherty edits. She described the injunction, which was not appealed, as being unlawful and said she was not prepared to comply with it. She said the plaintiff’s complaints were an attempt to prevent her from doing her job as an investigative reporter who cares about deaths that have been “covered up”.
It was accepted that she had published “a postage stamp sized” picture of Mr Gilsenan, but she said it was part of a story investigating the sudden deaths of young people in Ireland. Counsel said his client was not complaining about the posting of the inquest outcome, but it is their case that the commentary about his client clearly amounted to harassment.
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