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Kate Fitzgerald, annonymity and a ‘hacked’ voicemail?

Mick Fealty on December 2, 2011, 12:03 pm

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Last Saturday, the Irish Times told the story of a young, brilliantly talented US born Irishwoman. It followed a very powerful piece by the woman herself back in September, just before, as it much later came to light, she had taken her own life. But having first linked the story, John Ryan’s Broadsheet.ie is now at odds with the paper ever since his subsequent identification of Terry Prone’s Communication Clinic as Kate Fitzgerald’s employers. Without getting into the legally complex …

Hacking row widens as Yates of the Yard investigates.

Brian Walker on July 9, 2009, 4:16 pm

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The very idea of a gagging out of court settlement in the News of the World hacking case is highly dubious in this age of trumpeted accountability. That a media group should seek such a settlement is typical hypocrisy of a high order. That a court should grant it and that the police and the CPS should take no further action when, as it appears, they knew most of the Guardian’s facts boggles the mind. Without the Guardian’s scoop who …