Defamation case against Gemma O’Doherty taken by brother of Veronica Guerin to begin next month [Video]

A DEFAMATION CASE against Gemma O’Doherty taken by a brother of murdered journalist Veronica Guerin has been fixed for next month by the High Court.

O’Doherty is being sued by Jimmy Guerin, who is an independent Fingal County Councillor.

Guerin has submitted that O’Doherty defamed him in social media posts and a website video, which, he claims, meant he was a convicted paedophile.

He sued O’Doherty, a former journalist with the Irish Independent, over the postings on Twitter (X), Facebook and her own internet video broadcast portal.

The broadcast includes a statement of “how the brother of Veronica Guerin” was found with large quantities of child sexual abuse images.

O’Doherty claims she was referring to Jimmy Guerin’s brother, Martin Guerin (73), who pleaded guilty in 2019 to possession of hundreds of images and 146 movie files of child pornography for which he received a two-and-a-half-year suspended prison sentence.

At the …