{"id":269608,"date":"2026-01-29T05:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269608\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T05:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:44:10","slug":"martin-lanigan-husband-of-sinn-feins-mary-lou-mcdonald-settles-high-court-defamation-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269608\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lanigan, husband of Sinn F\u00e9in&#8217;s Mary Lou McDonald, settles High Court defamation action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Martin Lanigan, the husband of Sinn F\u00e9in president Mary Lou McDonald, has settled a defamation action brought against former government minister Shane Ross and his book publisher, after he received an apology in the High Court from both parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Lanigan had alleged he was defamed by material published in Mr Ross\u2019s 2022 biography of Ms McDonald. The book, entitled  Mary Lou McDonald: A Republican Riddle, was published by Atlantic Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Martin Lanigan, the husband of Sinn F\u00e9in president Mary Lou McDonald, has settled a defamation action brought against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,1115,42,2285,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-269608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-courts","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-justice","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}