Trinity College Dublin bans the Daily Mail newspaper after faking student death story (IrishCentral)

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:45:15 PST

An Irish university has moved to ban a prominent tabloid from its campus after it deliberately published a story falsely claiming that a search subject had been found deadAlthough Caolan Mulrooney, a 19 year old teenager, tragically was found dead just two days after the story's publication, it was clear within hours of it going to press, while the search was still ongoing, that the body had not yet been found, and that the story had been deliberately inventedThe story, by journalist Marisa Lynch, sparked widespread fury in Cork and on the TwittersphereThe piece enjoyed a prominent position in the paper's popular Sunday edition, and claimed that the body of the student had been recovered in the River Lee, suggestive of a suicide, – Mulrooney's body was recovered two days later in a local business yard, after seemingly sustaining a 25 foot fall from an unprotected cliff after a night with friends READ MORE

Daily Mail newspaper sued by Susan Boyle’s financial manager (IrishCentral)

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 05:00:28 PDT

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

Susan Boyle’s Irish financial advisor, Ossie Kilkenny, is suing Associated Newspapers, in particular the Daily Mail, for alleged libel.

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Trinity College Dublin bans the Daily Mail newspaper after faking student death story (IrishCentral)

Daily Mail newspaper sued by Susan Boyle’s financial manager (IrishCentral)