A daily newspaper has been ordered to donate equal sums of money to the Haiti appeal and an Irish charity for contempt of court during the Eamonn Lillis murder trial.
The Irish Daily Mirror published the name of Mr Lillis’s 17-year-old daughter on Saturday January 30th after the trial judge had warned the media not to identify her due to her age.
The newspaper apologised for the mistake yesterday at the Central Criminal Court.
Luán Ó Braonáin SC, defending, told Mr Justice Barry White that the newspaper’s system to ensure compliance had broken down on that occasion, but that it was the only time this had happened during the trial.
