Board meeting to decide future of Irish Daily Star as Minister Rabbitte enters row

British owner wants out of joint venture after Kate Middleton topless photo storm

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Ireland’s Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte enters row over Kate Middleton's topless photos

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“The decision to publish these pictures has no justification whatever and Northern & Shell condemns it in the strongest possible terms.”

Northern & Shell’s communications director Mimi Turner said: “We abhor the decision of the Irish Daily Star to publish these intrusive pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, which we, like St James’s Palace, believe to be a grotesque invasion of their privacy.

“Northern & Shell is profoundly dismayed at the decision made by Irish Daily Star, which would never have been made by any of the newspapers or magazines under our editorial control.

“We consider all aspects of privacy very carefully, and would never condone this action. When the recent pictures of Prince Harry were made available to UK newspapers, even though that was a very different and more public situation, we felt there was no public interest in publishing those images.

“This is of course a far more distressing situation and while it has nothing to do with the Daily Star UK or any of Northern & Shell’s own newspapers, we very much regret the distress it has caused.”

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