The Daily Mirror has paid out €50,000 (£44,000) plus costs to settle a libel action in Ireland. The paper's Irish edition ran a story in March 2007 claiming that a nine-year-old boy had taken cocaine into his primary school. It was, in fact, baby powder.
The boy's counsel said the story was "grossly inaccurate" and "irresponsibly written". The boy was not found in the playground with cocaine, he was not caught showing the drug to other pupils, the school principal had not confirmed the cocaine find and the boy was not suspended from school. (Via Irish Times)
