Ireland
Presses stoppedPosted Dec 17 2008
The Irish Times was forced to stop its presses Nov. 28 after receiving threats of injunctions along with three other Irish newspapers, to prevent them from printing the main conclusions of the Moriarty Tribunal.
The public inquiry had been investigating whether telecommunications contracts had been affected by payments from Irish businessmen to former prime minister Charles Haughey and former communications minister Michael Lowry.
The tribunal threatened the Times and the Sunday Business if the newspapers printed the preliminary reports of the inquiry. The Times was forced to destroy 25,000 copies of the issue.