Posted by Updated / Thursday, 16 Oct 2025 12:57
Legal Affairs Correspondent
People Before Profit TD Paul Murphy has begun defamation proceedings against Fine Gael presidential candidate Heather Humphreys.
The proceedings lodged by Mr Murphy yesterday, relate to comments made by Ms Humphreys in a debate on RTÉ Radio One’s This Week programme last Sunday.
Mr Murphy had sent a solicitor’s letter to Ms Humphreys arising out of her remarks relating to Mr Murphy’s role in an anti-water charges protest in Jobstown in Tallaght in November 2014.
Mr Murphy was one of six men charged with the false imprisonment of then tánaiste Joan Burton and her assistant Karen O’Connell in their car on 15 November 2014.
All six were acquitted of the charges by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in 2017.
Mr Murphy said he had no comment to make on the lodgment of the defamation proceedings for now.
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