{"id":85640,"date":"2025-10-17T02:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/85640\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T02:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T02:47:07","slug":"paul-murphy-brings-defamation-case-against-heather-humphreys-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/85640\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Murphy brings defamation case against Heather Humphreys \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall b-it-article-body__text--left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/people-before-profit-solidarity-pbps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/people-before-profit-solidarity-pbps\/\">People Before Profit<\/a> TD <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/paul-murphy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/paul-murphy\/\">Paul Murphy<\/a> has lodged defamation proceedings in the High Court against Fine Gael <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/presidential-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/presidential-election\/\">presidential<\/a> candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heather-humphreys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/heather-humphreys\">Heather Humphreys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The proceedings were lodged on Wednesday by solicitors Prospect Law, for Mr Murphy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Murphy is seeking damages for alleged defamation in comments made by Ms Humphreys in a debate on RT\u00c9 Radio 1\u2019s This Week programme last Sunday. He is also seeking legal costs of the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His legal team includes two senior counsel, Rois\u00edn Lacey and Michael O\u2019Higgins, and barrister David Burke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Murphy had sent a solicitor\u2019s letter to Ms Humphreys arising out of her remarks relating to Mr Murphy\u2019s role in an anti-water charges protest in Jobstown in Tallaght in November 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The TD was one of six men charged with false imprisonment of the then t\u00e1naiste Joan Burton and her assistant Karen O\u2019Connell in their car on November 15th, 2014. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In 2017, they were acquitted of the charges by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy has lodged defamation proceedings in the High Court against Fine Gael presidential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3775,42,2044,43,7118,43923,978,6085,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-85640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-fine-gael","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-heather-humphreys","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-paul-murphy","13":"tag-people-before-profit-solidarity-pbps","14":"tag-presidential-election","15":"tag-rte","16":"tag-top-news","17":"tag-top-stories","18":"tag-topnews","19":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85640","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=85640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}