Wonder will he donate that money to Haiti?

I won’t write down what I know Denis O’Brien did here. But I’ll be telling it to everyone I meet. I invite everyone in Ireland to do the same. And maybe push for prosecutions from Moriarty.

O’Brien has won a huge victory. It was never about the money – €150,000 plus costs is chump change to him. What he has achieved is what he set out to do: to put down a marker to other journalists thinking of criticising him – do that and your ass will end up in court. There will be no further critical opinion pieces about in the Irish media. It is a sad day for journalism.

Damn it, I was just about to say something bad about Denis :(

I’d be closing down the comments on this one – just in case like!

DOB and good name don’t go too well together in the same sentence. In Ireland he is associated with Lowery and that forever ruined his chances of ever having a good name.

Did not realise that TheJournal are responsible for any comments made here. That must be terrifying for them, they write and article, we all talk crap and they have to wade through it all. Nasty..

Billionaire or not, the press should not give an ill informed opinion. They should report on a factual basis.

I was just about to say something about Denis O’Brien when the memories of all the RTE staff came flooding back:

”Ah you can’t say that about Mr. O’Brien because he’s not here to defend himself. We’ll move onto the next topic.”

Tubridy, Pat Kenny etc. have done a fine job of stopping any truth from emerging on our beloved Denis!

Denis O’brien is a f…… c… . My opinion.

Hi guys,

Apologies but the comments section will now be closed for a few hours until it can be moderated again (there have been quite a few on this thread that have had to be deleted).

Thanks for understanding,
Jennifer

I’m surprised The Journal allowed comments, normally they’re disabled for “Legal Reasons”

Delighted at this news. Just because you’ve made money does not leave you open to gutter English press. Nobody should be submitted to underhand and libellous lies.

What a travesty. Seriously despair for this country.

WestBrit media have an identity crisis as have the people who support them

Is the journal turning into a rant zone about everything ??

O Brien won his case because a public jury decided he was libelled by a newspaper . Period . This is the system we have and they decided he won, the paper lost. It has nothing to do with golf, Simon Coveney or horses….

I’d imagine there’s a section somewhere that says something along the lines of… views expressed in the comments section are the opinion of the author and do not represent TheJournal in any way, shape or form.

If there isn’t, there bloody well should be! People should be allowed use the Internet for the free expression of opinions and ideas no? It’s not like the print media of yesteryear where they can selectively choose the “letters to the editor” section.

Denis O’Brien has every right to use the law to defend his name. Journalists think its acceptable to blacken someone’s name and call it freedom of information. Success and wealth may carry distasteful connotations in modern day Ireland but that doesn’t mean everyone that is wealthy and successful are shady and distrustful. Well done Denis, hopefully the press will think twice now before libelling someone but I wouldn’t hold my breath.

All newspapers try and sell as many copies as possible irrespective of whether it is news, gossip, crime or scandal because that is what an awful lot people like to buy. That however does not give them the right to blacken any one’s name no matter who they are.

Like the person said above. 50K for the Bloody Sunday victims.

Scannal uafásach, bhí mórphointe an ailt sin fíor is cosúil, bhain sé leas as Bird, is bheadh sin go mór chun a leasa féin.

When you know about the filth that were and still are involved in the construction gamble that broke this country in half, who are now living in hotels and luxury houses in Spain and getting paid by NAMA to come back to Ireland to sell their properties and claim five star expenses, having had their billions in pure gambling debt effectively forgiven, Denis O’Brien seems a saint in comparison.

Reality is, whatever happened in the Lowry affair, O’Brien has proven in the aftermatch that he is a capable business man of considerable ability.

Those involved in construction and development and bank lending in this country were incompetent dishonest imbeciles. We should be more rational about what and who we get angry about. I’m not whitewashing what the Lowry affair might have involved in the culture of the day, but it is a very small dirty deed compared to the moral crimes of the developers and the magnitude of how their ego, ignorance and arrogance have cost us a 40 billion burden. All of which was permitted, uncontrolled and encouraged by Fianna Fail.

Great result from Denis O’Brien who has been vindicated with this action. This result couldn’t have gone against a nicer journalist either.

I see a lot of comment flying around the journal accusing people of doing things with no proof what so ever. They are not deleted. In confused !

Ceart agat EOJ

150,000e …. Ha ha … Hillarious ..
Ah well at least Denis O Brien gets to keep HIS good name , That 150000 will go a long way in Haiti where he will become even more beloved and honoured , can’t be bad for business all the same, But then again this is just my opinion and I am not in business and as has been remarked on here before ”what do I know !”

Redress me by my proper name ya little bo!!ix…