Legal Actions
A number of legal actions have been taken against the magazine; notable court cases which ended in settlement have been taken by politician Avril Doyle and former US diplomat George Dempsey. The biggest libel actions were caused by "two dead clerics" in the words of Paddy Prendeville - Michael Cleary who had fathered a child and Stephen Hilliard, an Anglican priest and Irish Times journalist who joined the Irish Republican Army in the 1960s and worked as a Training Officer. In both cases the magazine was finally vindicated.
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