The Irish Independent and their ‘reporters’; you either love ‘em or hate ‘em or find them believable or not. They are at least amusing. Little over a week ago the High Court got to listen to ‘evidence’ from a former editor of the Independent group of newspapers, Helen Callanan, in a libel case involving Ian Bailey.
Helen Callanan
Always sniffing for a good story, true or not, she apparently caught a fish without even casting a line. The fish that she thought she caught was Ian Bailey, labelled as the ‘self confessed’ suspect in the Sophie Du Planter murder case relentlessly and mercilessly by The Irish Independent, because they believed he did murder her. I digress. Back to the fishy story.
Ian Bailey
In her ‘evidence’ she said she could not believe her luck when Ian Bailey told her on the phone that it was he that killed Sophie in order to resurrect his career. This was after Helen told him that he was a suspect in the case. It was even worth €20,000 to him for the story as well. Helen, clearly flabbergasted by this marvellous turn of events, by her own admission, was on to the scoop of her career. Check that, she eventually got the boot for nicking staplers at the office. (just joking, that part is made up, the stapler part)
Can you even imagine ! This was a chap she never even met and yet here he was, cool and calm on the phone, confessing to his new best friend in the hope of getting a job from her or some other compensation for his story. All the material, which she classed as evidence, was duly written into the record as proof of his guilt which was, according to her, given entirely by the oral evidence of Ian. The National Enquirer better snap this lady up quick now that she is the former editor of the Sunday Tribune.
Yes, Ian had provided stories before for the paper but now he was the main event! Helen lamented at the libel proceedings that the biggest fiasco that she had ever encountered was that the reporter she had on a story was in fact the suspect. It seems she never considered the story itself a candidate for a fiasco or even inglorious pantomime. This is ground breaking journalism at it’s best at the Independent group. What do they teach at these journalism schools?
The reality of this cringe worthy and non-corroborated fiction by Callanan is note worthy, for she knows too that the trash group newspapers, that she once served like a trained lap dog, will be next in the libel firing line after he gets done with the other useful idiots that the corrupt cops used to try and make him into a ‘confessed murderer' rather than the innocent man he clearly is.
Barry Clifford
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