Report in The Irish Times initiated ‘lie’ about death of Savita Halappanavar, court told

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John Waters being sued by journalist Kitty Holland over remarks at political event in 2017 which Holland says meant she was not fit to be a journalist

Responding to questions from his counsel, John Waters said the lie was that Savita Halappanavar had died as a result of the Eighth Amendment on abortion. Photograph: Bryan O'Brienin University Hospital Galway in 2012 began with a report in The Irish Times, retired journalist John Waters has claimed in court.

Ms Holland is claiming that Mr Waters’ reference to the “journalist who started the lie” about Ms Halappanavar, who died from septicaemia a week after presenting at the Galway hospital, was an obvious reference to her and meant she was dishonest and not fit to be a journalist.I took the ‘easy way out’ and gave birth by Caesarean.

Kevin O’Sullivan, Environment and Science Editor with The Irish Times, who was editor of The Irish Times between 2011 and 2017, said it was immediately clear to him in 2012 that the story of Ms Halappanavar was “potentially huge” when it was first mentioned.

 

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