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Sat 07 Jul 2008Woman wins €90,000 damages in privacy case
A WOMAN has won €90,000 damages from the High Court after it ruled that newspaper articles about her relationship with a priest based on unlawfully tapped phone conversations were a "deliberate, conscious and unjustified breach" of her constitutional right to privacy.
The award is the first against a non-State entity arising from illegal phone-tapping.
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