Journalist takes new legal case against INM

O’Doherty has accused media group of defaming her

Investigative journalist Gemma ODoherty

Investigative journalist Gemma O’Doherty has begun a new defamation action against her former employer, Independent News & Media.

Doherty has appointed Paul Tweed of Johnson Solicitors to represent her after the publication last weekend of an article in the Sunday Independent headlined: “Second garda denies Mary Boyle cover-up.”

The award-winning journalist has accused INM of defaming her, by claiming that she had been misleading and selective in how she edited a self-funded documentary ...