Businessman Denis O’Brien is facing an estimated €1m legal costs bill after the Supreme Court ruled he must pay most of the costs of his failed case over statements made by two TDs in the Dáil about his banking affairs.
Giving the cost ruling, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Mr Justice Frank Clarke said Mr O’Brien had argued he was entitled to costs for reasons including he had won on some of the issues raised. That, along with the importance and novelty of the underlying issues and their resolution, would warrant “some departure” from the normal rule on costs.
He went to the High Court after the Committee on Procedure and Privileges rejected his complaints about the TDs’ actions.
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