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Earlier today we posted an item about new Attorney General Maire Whelan.

In it we wrote that she was married and “not bowling from the Pavilion end”.

The assumption being that people might think she was gay based solely on her appearance.

This was a stupid inclusion and we regret publishing it.

We know this has offended a number of people and we know why they were offended.

We are genuinely sorry.

What is it with print journalists?

First Niamh Horan comes over all Rumpole on us . Now, it’s her former flatmate, Alison O’Riordan. An email from her has just arrived at Casa Broadsheet:

Message:
i would advise all images and defamatory posts about me to be removed
or i will have a lawyers letter in the post today.

Oh.

Friendly.

So we have to decide (as our lawyer is in rehab) if a post is defamatory and then take it down?

But by taking it down we acknowledge it is defamatory.

Our brain hurts.

Can you help us spot a defamatory post among Broadsheet’s Alison O’Riordan back posts?

(Pic: Irish Times)


We only got in this morning and what’s the first thing to greet us at 7.54am, but this from Niamh Horan, referring to last night’s posting:

Message:
Please take that posting down about me. It’s completely defamatory.
Iff the back of a nasty website remark. All lies. I’ve already been on
to my lawyer.
Niamh Horan

And literally one second later:

Message:
Please note I have contacted my lawyer regarding chris de burgh
comments. Serious legal repercussions for anyone repeating the
comments. Chris has taken his facebook down. Please do likewise.

Niamh Horan

Broadsheet Suggestions for Niamh:

You might have said ‘Good Morning’.

You might have even said ‘hello’.

You might have not tried to intimidate us first thing on a gloomy Tuesday with ‘your’ lawyer.

“Serious legal repercussions?”

Now you’ve gone and scared Chompsky. And he was nervous enough as it is.

Sadly ‘our’ lawyer is a fat drunk. Once he wakes up we’ll get advice on how to respond to your threats.

Good morning.