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.
24 February 2010
The Press Ombudsman has upheld a complaint that the publication by the Irish Daily Star of a photograph of a five-year-old child involved in court proceedings was a breach of Principle 9 (Children) of the Code of Practice for Newspapers and Periodicals. Two other complaints about the same article were not upheld.
16 February 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint by Mr. John McCamley, a bus driver and trade unionist, about an article published in the Irish Independent on 29 April 2009 concerning an unofficial dispute in Dublin Bus, and has decided not to uphold two further complaints about the same article.
16 February 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold two complaints by Mr. John McCamley, a bus driver and trade unionist, about articles published in the Evening Herald on 28 April 2009 concerning an unofficial dispute in Dublin Bus, and not to uphold four other complaints about the same articles.
29 January 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint made by Mr and Mrs Ennis under Principle 1 of the Code of Practice (Truth and Accuracy) that an article published in the Sunday World was inaccurate because Mrs Ennis had not made the statements attributed to her in the article. Other complaints about the article were not upheld.
29 January 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint by Mr Des Geraghty about an article in the Sunday Independent about the house in which he was living, in breach of Principle 1 (Truth and Accuracy) and Principle 5 (Privacy) of the Code of Practice.
29 January 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint by Mr James Gantley about an article in the Sunday World which referred to him as a “well known drug dealer”, in breach of Principle 2 (Distinguishing Fact and Comment) of the Code of Practice. Other complaints about the article were not upheld.
27 January 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided not to uphold a complaint made by two people under Principle 5 (Privacy) of the Code of Practice about an article in the Sunday World that included what the complainants said was information given by them in confidence to the Garda Siochana.
25 January 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint by Mr John McCamley, a bus driver and trade unionist, under Principle 2 of the Code of Practice (Distinguishing Fact and Comment) about an article in the Irish Sun on 29 April 2009 concerning an unofficial dispute in Dublin Bus, and not to uphold other complaints about the same article.
06 January 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided to uphold a complaint by Mr Ray O’Donoghue under Principle 1 of the Code of Practice (Truth and Accuracy) about an article in the Irish Daily Mail about his son, Wayne, which he said was inaccurate as it implied wrongly that his son had been convicted of murder. A complaint under Principle 5 (Privacy) was not upheld.
06 January 2010
The Press Ombudsman has decided that an offer made by the Gorey Guardian to publish a letter constituted sufficient remedial action on its part in response to a complaint by Mr Liam Egan, who complained on behalf of MPACIE, a Muslim advocacy group, that a report in the newspaper about his organisation’s call for a protest about the proposed visit of a speaker about the Holocaust to a local school had been in breach of Principle 1 (Truth and Accuracy) of the Code of Practice.