Sunday World
Irish tabloid with a focus on stories about organised crime and paramilitaries.
Denis Donaldson
- A former RUC officer was one of the two men who exposed the whereabouts of the self-confessed British spy Denis Donaldson in a Sunday tabloid last month.
- Colin Breen, who worked in Tennent Street station in Belfast and is now retired, travelled to the Glenties area of Co Donegal with a Sunday World journalist to track down Donaldson.
- Breen, who allegedly has close ties with the Special Branch, secretly videotaped Donaldson outside his remote hideaway five miles from Glenties. He is not a Sunday World staff member, and the newspaper’s regular staff photographers were not used.
- The newspaper printed the pictures and location of Donaldson, which until then was unknown to the public. The secretly-filmed video was also sold to a number of British television stations. Donaldson was shot dead at the cottage on Tuesday.
- Gardai refused to say whether the Sunday World journalist who wrote the story, Hugh Jordan, or Breen would be interviewed as part of their inquiries.[1]
Kincaid and Anderson
- Contempt proceedings were started after articles in November 2005 and July 2006 about Laurence Kincaid and William Anderson, then due to stand trial at Belfast Crown Court on charges of intimidation, criminal damage and malicious wounding.
- Their trial in January 2007 was put back after defence lawyers tried to have the hearing halted because of the Sunday World articles.
- A ban on publicity surrounding the case was imposed but the Sunday World said this was not communicated to editor Jim McDowell.
- The Sunday World's publisher was fined £50,0000 and McDowell fined £10,000.[2]
Freddie Scappaticci
- An alleged high-ranking British agent within the IRA has won an apology from a tabloid newspaper for flouting a ban imposed to protect his whereabouts.
- The Sunday World's publishers agreed to pay Freddie Scappaticci's £30,000 legal bill as part of the High Court settlement in Belfast.
- They also agreed to make a £10,000 donation to charity.[3]
References
- ↑ Ex-RUC man helped find Donaldson, by Colm Heatley, Sunday Business Post, 9 April 2006.
- ↑ 'Slipshod' Sunday World in £60,000 contempt fine, accessed 27 April 2008.
- ↑ Scappaticci wins newspaper case, BBC News, 25 April 2008.
