Eoghan Harris loses appeal against transfer of action against Aoife Moore

A JUDGE HAS dismissed former Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris’ appeal against the Circuit Court’s decision to transfer his defamation action against journalist Aoife Moore to the High Court.

He claims that in the post she wrongly accused him of directly sending her sexualised messages on Twitter. Moore claims that she was defamed in those tweets which she says called into question her journalistic objectivity and that her reporting was partisan in favour of Sinn Féin and the wider republican movement in Ireland.Harris’s action against Moore was due to be heard before the Circuit Civil Court earlier this year.However, following a pre-trial application by Moore’s lawyers before Christmas, Judge John O’Connor ruled that Harris’s case should be transferred to the High Court.

In his ruling confirming the Circuit Court’s decision, Mr Justice Burns directed that, upon transfer to the High Court, both sets of proceedings should be listed before the judge in charge of the Defamation List for case management.

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