Threats To Personally Sue Journalists
In June 2012, O'Brien wrote to journalist and broadcaster Vincent Browne threatening to personally sue him. Browne disclosed this letter to the general public.
Browne later wrote a piece for The Irish Times on why O'Brien "is not a fit person to control INM" (Independent News & Media). In it he questioned O'Brien's previous threats to personally sue Sam Smyth and asked : "ow plausible is it that the removal of Sam Smyth from a Sunday morning radio programme on Today FM, which Denis O'Brien controls, and his ostracisation now within the Irish Independent to which he is contracted (not one article by him has been published for some months), isn't part of the same campaign which Denis O'Brien and Leslie Buckley, conducted against Sam Smyth in 2010?"
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