Juries in libel cases should no longer determine damages, because they tended to regard the media as "a bottomless pit", the Fianna Fail spokesman on law reform, Mr Willie O'Dea, said in a statement.
"Irish libel laws are now the most draconian in the civilised world," he said. "Irish juries tend to regard the libel law as a method of redistributing income from what they perceive as rich to an aggrieved