If a resolution to the complaint cannot be achieved through conciliation, the Press Ombudsman will consider the complaint and make a decision.
If the Press Ombudsman finds a breach of the Code of Practice, the complaint will be upheld, and the publication will have to publish that part of the decision upholding the complaint.
22 March 2012
The Press Ombudsman has decided not to uphold a complaint by Mr Phillip Fay that an item published in the Sunday Independent on 18 December 2011 was a breach of Principle 8 (Prejudice) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Magazines.
09 March 2012
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint by the Teaching Council that two articles in the Irish Independent on 22 November 2011 and 16 December 2011 about a survey conducted by the Teaching Council on maths teachers in secondary schools breached Principle 1 (Truth and Accuracy) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Magazines. Further complaints that the articles breached Principles 1 and 3 were not upheld.
08 March 2012
The Press Ombudsman has decided that The Argus made an offer of sufficient remedial action to resolve a complaint by Mr. William Colgan that a report of a court case of 7 December 2011, in which a charge of careless driving against him was dismissed, was in breach of Principle 7 (Court Reporting) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and magazines.
08 March 2012
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint from a parent made through her solicitor about an article in the Sunday World because it failed to observe the requirement of Principle 9 (Children) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Magazines that publications should take particular care in presenting information about a child under the age of 16.
29 February 2012
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint under Principles 1 (Truth and Accuracy) and 2 (Distinguishing Fact and Comment) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Magazines about an article in the Evening Herald of 5 January 2012, because the headline was misleading and reported a conjecture as fact.
21 February 2012
The Press Ombudsman has decided that an offer made by the editor of the Westmeath Examiner was sufficient to resolve a complaint by a man about a report of a civil court case in which he was the plaintiff.
16 February 2012
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint by the Irish Traveller Movement that an article in the Evening Herald on 14 September 2011 was in breach of Principles 2 (Distinguishing Fact and Comment) and 8 (Prejudice) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Magazines.
09 February 2012
The Press Ombudsman has decided that although an article about the Temple Bar Cultural Trust in the Evening Herald on 26 September 2011 was inaccurate, this was not significant enough to amount to a breach of Principle 1 (Truth and Accuracy) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Magazines. He also decided that there was insufficient evidence that the article in question breached Principle 2 (Distinguishing Fact and Comment) of the Code.
20 January 2012
The Press Ombudsman has decided not to uphold a complaint by the Parliamentary Legal Adviser to the Houses of the Oireachtas that the newspaper’s publication of a decision of the Press Ombudsman, as subsequently upheld on appeal by the Press Council, was in breach of Principle 10 (Publication of the Decision of the Press Ombudsman/Press Council) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Magazines.
20 January 2012
The Press Ombudsman has decided that an offer made by the Irish Independent was sufficient to resolve a complaint from the ESB that a reference to it in an article on 2 September 2011 was in breach of Principles 1 (Truth and Accuracy) and 4 (Respect for Rights) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Magazines.