Dublin student faced with legal costs ‘enough to buy house’ after loosing court case

Dublin student Eoin McKeogh now finds himself faced with legal costs enough to buy him a modest property after losing his injunction case in the High Court.

McKeogh had sought an injunction against a number of national print publications after a video posted to YouTube showed a man leaving a taxi without paying.

Eoin Black, of South Dublin, has since admitted that he was the man who dodged the fare, though the admission will come as little consolation to McKeogh who was already named on a number of websites.

McKeogh had secured temporary injunctions against internet giants Facebook and YouTube and sought to extend the injunction to the print press as the case developed.

The Dublin student, who protested his innocence from the start, was studying in Japan at the time, and insisted that he could not have been the man in the video.

High Court Justice Michael Peart however said that the national papers “were and are entitled to name Mr McKeogh in their reporting of the proceedings”, dismissing McKeogh’s case.

The Justice denied right of appeal to the Supreme Court, saying that the facts were so exceptional that it would allow the court not to follow the law as it has been pronounced in the “highest court in the country”.

By DONAL MACHENRY

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