The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has welcomed the “extremely significant” decision by a High Court judge to throw out a “scandalous” libel case brought against a journalist by Sinn Fein’s Gerry Kelly.
A senior judge has thrown out a “scandalous” attempt by Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly to claim he should be compensated by a Belfast Telegraph columnist who said that the Sinn Féin MLA shot a prison warder in the head.