Judgment reserved in case where Kitty Holland of The Irish Times is suing over comments made in 2017
It was “patent nonsense” for retired journalist John Waters to seek to defend himself on the basis that an allegedly defamatory statement about journalist Kitty Holland was his honestly held opinion, Dublin Circuit Civil Court has heard.
Ms Holland, Social Affairs Correspondent with The Irish Times, of Ranelagh, Dublin, is suing Mr Waters, of Sandycove, Dublin, over comments made about a report in The Irish Times in 2012 which disclosed the death of Savita Halappanavar at University Hospital Galway.
Mr English, in his submission, said the judge must decide what Mr Waters’s words meant to the ordinary reasonable reader. Mr English questioned the proposition that Mr Waters’s comments were not motivated by malice, given that Mr Waters had repeated his view during an interview with campaigner Gemma O’Doherty on January 24th last.
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