"There are 10 cases listed in the legal diary of the High Court involving Associated Newspapers (Ireland) Ltd. — the Irish offshoot of Lord Rothermere’s British media empire."

"Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Irish Mail on Sunday and Irish Daily Mail, are to pay €225,000 in damages and costs to former Smart Telecom chief Oisin Fanning after he won his libel action last week."

Did the LA Times spike a column proposing that it should follow the Mail on Sunday’s lead in giving away new music?

MoS editor Peter Wright: "Prince has done this because he makes most of his money these days as a performing artist."

"Contempt of court action will be taken later this year against [the Mail on Sunday] over a story it ran [in February]. … Editor Christopher Williams and Allan Caldwell, the freelance reporter who wrote the story, also face charges."

Wow. New York gossip blog Gawker absolutely trashes the Mail on Sunday for its cinema ad. (via Andy Dickinson)

Martin Moore after receiving a call from Precious Williams about the Maily on Sunday’s retracted Jon Snow stories: "It isn’t tenable for a news organisation to admit it got something so completely wrong but not explain how or why."