Decided by the Press Ombudsman

The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint by Mr Keith Fahy that some of the information about him in an article in the News of the World was in breach of Principle 5 of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals by failing to respect his right to privacy, but has decided not to uphold a number of other complaints made about the same article.

The Press Ombudsman has decided that the Western People made an offer of sufficient remedial action to resolve a complaint by a woman about an article reporting on the death of a relative.

The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint made on behalf of Mr Wayne O’Donoghue that an article in the Sunday World was in breach of Principle 5 of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals because it failed to respect his right to privacy.

The Press Ombudsman has decided not to uphold a number of complaints by a man about two articles published in the Sunday World which, he said, identified him as a person at the centre of allegations about a paedophile ring.

The Press Ombudsman has decided not to uphold a number of complaints made on behalf of Mr Martin Foley by his solicitor about an article published in the Irish Daily Star Sunday on 28 February 2010 which featured his attendance at a gymnasium. The complaints were made under Principles 3.2 (Fairness and Honesty) and 5 (Privacy) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals.

The Press Ombudsman has decided that an offer by the Irish Daily Mail to publish a correction of a factual error in a news story about an armed robbery constituted an offer of sufficient remedial action on its part to resolve a complaint by a victim of the robbery.

The Press Ombudsman has decided that the Evening Herald made an offer of sufficient remedial action to resolve a complaint by Mrs Noeleen Hutch about the publication of a photograph of her son arriving at the inquest into his father’s death.

The Press Ombudsman has upheld a complaint by a man that the Irish Daily Star was in breach of Principle 1 of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals (Truth and Accuracy) by publishing a photograph of him to illustrate an article highly critical of another person with the same name, and by refusing to publish an unqualified correction for what it accepted was an error on its part.