Irish blogger settles libel bill of $140,000
Forbes Magazine has reported that an ‘‘Irish blogger’’ has had to pay $140,000 (€100,000) in damages to settle a libel action brought against a blog.
‘‘Ireland’s media is currently abuzz over a confidential legal settlement against a blogger, who allegedly had to pay almost $140,000 in damages for a libellous post, seen by few, swiftly purged from the site, and readily apologised for,” wrote Forbes columnist Trevor Butterworth in the most recent edition of the magazine.
Butterworth cites an Irish Times journalist as his source.
‘‘This kind of judicial policing has, according to the journalist, ‘scared the crap out of people’.”
