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Ex-INM boss Stephen Rae seeks compensation and apology from Council of Europe
Rae previously sued the publisher of the Sunday Times Ireland, RTÉ and a journalist
Stephen Rae, the former group editor of Independent News and Media, has asked the Council of Europe for compensation and an apology after it published an allegedly defamatory reference to him which related to legal action he took in 2019.
Simon Carty, the solicitor on record for Rae in two sets of defamation proceedings, wrote to the international human rights organisation asking it to remove the reference from its website and provide “a proposal to ...