The judge said the words of the story were incapable of injuring his reputation
Enoch Burke has lost his defamation claim against the publisher of the Sunday Independent over an article alleging he was moved jail cell for his safety because he was “annoying” other prisoners.
This story came during Mr Burke’s first stint in prison for breaching a court order restraining him from attending at St Wilson’s Hospital School, which had suspended and later dismissed him after he publicly objected to being instructed to refer to a male student using they/them pronouns.Sinéad Hussey: ‘We treat miscarriages as a blip or something that’s easily forgotten’‘You’re not Irish.
A reasonable reader of the article could not have had a view of Mr Burke’s reputation that was capable of being injured by an incorrect allegation that he had been speaking excessively about religion following his imprisonment, the judge said. The article cited unnamed sources in support of its statement that Mr Burke had been moved to a new jail cell for his own safety as he was “annoying other prisoners” and “repeatedly expressing his outspoken views and beliefs”.
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