Guardian: 2 Irish papers gagged over corruption reports

national | arts and media | other press Tuesday December 02, 2008 17:22 by redjade

A tribunal into political corruption in Ireland has used the law to prevent some Irish newspapers from printing its preliminary report.

Two Dublin-based papers, the Irish Times and the Sunday Business Post, received threats of injunctions aimed at preventing them from disclosing the main conclusions of the Moriarty tribunal. As a result, the Irish Times was forced to halt printing and destroy 25,000 copies of the paper on Friday night.

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Geraldine Kennedy, the editor of the Irish Times, declined to comment further on the legal move. The paper's presses had to be stopped after a solicitor acting for the tribunal contacted her around 11.30pm on Friday with the threat of an injunction. Kennedy said the paper would not be discussing details of the material it was prevented from publishing or allow it to be published outside of Ireland.

more at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/02/ireland-cor...bunal