{
  "id": 16191362,
  "title": "The 18-year legal battle over a news report that a jury took just 48 minutes to dismiss",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/23/the-18-year-legal-battle-over-a-news-report-that-a-jury-took-just-48",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-23T12:36:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Irish Times",
    "slug": "the-irish-times",
    "url": "https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2026/10/24/jury-takes-48-minutes-to-dismiss-defamation-case-over-news-reports-published-22-years-ago/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Engineer sought total of €6m ‘index linked’ from Irish Times and other newspapers following reporting of his trial for assault",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}