A CURIOUS judgment appeared in this week’s Stubbs Gazette. Public Relations of Ireland, which trades as Bill O’Herlihy’s PR firm, O’Herlihy Communications, landed a €34,700 judgment against a company called Secrets Shhh (Ireland), which has a registered office on Congress Road in Cork.

O’Herlihy is better known for anchoring RTÉ’s football coverage so what could this have been about? It turns out that O’Herlihy’s company did some PR for a jewellery company in Cork and that the judgment relates to this. Directors Bill and Kay Cogan have also been involved in the childcare business.

The Cogans bought the European rights for Secrets Shhh, an Australian jewellery business. Well, the secret is out now – the firm owes O’Herlihy’s PR outfit €34,700.