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.
08 June 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided not to uphold a number of complaints by a man about two articles published in the Sunday World which, he said, identified him as a person at the centre of allegations about a paedophile ring.
27 May 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided that the Irish Daily Star took sufficient remedial action to resolve a complaint made under Principle 5 (Privacy) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals in an article that included a photograph of the complainant’s house and car, showing the car’s registration number. The article was reporting on a burglary at the complainant’s house.
27 May 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided not to uphold a number of complaints made on behalf of Mr Martin Foley by his solicitor about an article published in the Irish Daily Star Sunday on 28 February 2010 which featured his attendance at a gymnasium. The complaints were made under Principles 3.2 (Fairness and Honesty) and 5 (Privacy) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals.
11 May 2010
The Press Ombudsman decided that the newspaper’s offer to publish a correction about a factual error contained in an article about a robbery at the complainant’s house was sufficient remedial action on its part to resolve a complaint made under Principle 1 (Truth and Accuracy) of the Code of Practice.
11 May 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided that the Evening Herald made an offer of sufficient remedial action to resolve a complaint by Mrs Noeleen Hutch about the publication of a photograph of her son arriving at the inquest into his father’s death.
29 April 2010
The Press Ombudsman has upheld a complaint by a man that the Irish Daily Star was in breach of Principle 1 of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals (Truth and Accuracy) by publishing a photograph of him to illustrate an article highly critical of another person with the same name, and by refusing to publish an unqualified correction for what it accepted was an error on its part.
15 April 2010
The Press Ombudsman has upheld a complaint that the Irish Daily Star Sunday breached Principle 5 (Privacy) and Principle 3 (Fairness and Honesty) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals in articles about Mr Wayne O’Donoghue’s private life and activities at an English university. He did not uphold three further complaints made under the same Principles.
01 April 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided that an offer by The Irish Times to publish an article as a right of reply by the Irish Stem Cell Foundation was sufficient remedial action on its part in response to a complaint by the Foundation about an article in the paper entitled “Killing of embryos in human stem-cell research is wrong.”
01 April 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided that The Irish Times took sufficient remedial action to resolve a complaint about an article published on 21 January 2010 on stem cell research that the complainant said was inaccurate and misleading.
23 March 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint made on behalf of Mr Martin Foley by his solicitor under Principle 2.2 (Distinguishing Fact and Comment) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals about an article in the Evening Herald on 8 December 2009. A number of other complaints about the article were not upheld.