RTE reporter takes libel action against garda magazine

RTE's crime editor Paul Reynolds is taking a libel action against the Garda Review magazine and the general secretary of the GRA arising out of an editorial written in September 2001.

The piece was written by PJ Stone following a report by the journalist about a 26-year-old Garda who was arrested while on holidays in Tenerife in connection with a rape.

The court heard that, in the article, Mr Stone said that he seriously doubted there would have been a camera outside the RTE offices if a person within the state broadcaster had been facing charges.

The court heard he said this was seriously irresponsible journalism and motivated by malice or bias.

Mr Reynolds says this was a nasty attack on his judgment and to say that he was professionally biased amounted to the most serious allegation which could be made against a journalist.

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