{"id":344493,"date":"2026-03-13T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344493\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T16:45:09","slug":"shatter-in-defamation-proceedings-against-pbps-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/344493\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatter in defamation proceedings against PBP&#8217;s Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former justice minister Alan Shatter has initiated defamation proceedings against People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy over a post on X claiming he had met Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>The former Fine Gael minister never met Epstein or had any dealings with convicted sex offender who died by suicide in prison in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>False allegations circulated on social media platforms earlier this year after a new tranche of Epstein files were released by the US Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>It was falsely claimed Mr Shatter had a meeting with Epstein 15 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>A 2011 travel itinerary of Eric Holder, former president Barack Obama&#8217;s attorney general, was falsely purported to be the itinerary of Epstein<\/p>\n<p>Mr Holder&#8217;s itinerary showed him meeting Mr Shatter and the then secretary general of the Department of Justice on his visit to Ireland in September 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitors for Mr Shatter lodged papers yesterday initiating defamation proceedings against Mr Murphy for retweeting another X user who questioned why RT\u00c9 was not reporting Epstein\u2019s supposed meeting with Mr Shatter in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former justice minister Alan Shatter has initiated defamation proceedings against People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy over a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-344493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344493","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=344493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}